Ascender High Altitude Airships

Ascenders are Vee shaped airships. They are used for research, telecommunications 
and ultimately space launch vehicles replacing rocket.

Ascender 26

The smaller Ascenders are used as X planes for research.  For our first eight Ascender the number indicated length. Ascender 26 is twenty-six feet long. We change the number scheme and now the number indicates the order. Ascender 9 is the ninth Ascender we've built.

Ascender 36

TransAtmospheric Ascender   (under development)


Orbital Ascender, The Goal.

Older vehicles

Ascender 175

Length of each arm: 175 feet

Height: 42 feet

The first air inflation.                                                                            The 100 foot keel truss weights 20 only pounds.

 
   
Ascender 20 in flight                                                                                                                                           Ascender 90 in the hanger.


 

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