SNSR News Release: Sanswire Provides Update on STS-111 Airship Construction
Team Invents New "Adaptive Trim System" for Airships and Completes Additional Propulsion Testing
Sanswire-TAO
Corp. (www.sanswiretao.com), the airship development and manufacturing
joint venture equally owned by Sanswire Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SNSR stock news)
(www.sanswire.com) and TAO Technologies GmbH, provides an update on testing
progress of the STS-111 commercial airship.
Sanswire-TAO successfully completed testing of the FuelGas powered
propulsion system that will be used on the STS-111, designed to operate at
an altitude of 15,000 ft, thus providing a surveillance cone of
approximately 120 miles. The engine testing took place utilizing the
proprietary induction system operating with the "weightless" FuelGas
mixture in a mountainous region at 9,000 ft altitude simulating real-life
environments. The next step will be testing of the propulsion system at
increasing altitudes.
In addition to the success of the propulsion system tests, scientific teams
involved with the STS-111 testing have invented an "Adaptive Trim System"
(ATS) to be used exclusively on the STS Segmented airship line. ATS
automatically senses and alters the center of gravity throughout flight. In
flight tests with the 23m (76 ft) scaled prototype at 3,000 feet, ATS
reduced the overall drag, increased the maneuverability, and led to greater
flight duration. The system will be integrated into the STS-111 and future
Sanswire models and will be controlled by the proprietary autonomous flight
control module. To view a video of the 76 ft scaled prototype airship
utilizing the system in flight, please visit:
http://www.sanswire.com/STS111
"Since the delivery of the initial STS-111 envelope in early June, TAO's
teams of engineers and scientists have been working diligently and
thoroughly on testing the airships airborne systems in preparation for
flight," said Jonathan Leinwand, Chief Executive Officer of Sanswire. "The
success of the STS-111 propulsion system at 9,000 feet is an important
milestone in our spiral development and production cycle and allows us to
move to higher altitude testing. In addition, the Adaptive Trim System
invention is an exciting new build-on feature that will increase the
STS-111's estimated mission duration significantly over all current
heavier-than-air UAVs. We are confident in our progress to date and our
testing schedule remains on-track, while maintaining efficiency in cost and
time utilized to advance through each stage of testing."
For more news and information on Sanswire please visit
http://irgnews.com/coi/SNSR where you can find a fact sheet on the
company, investor presentations, and more.
About SNSR Stock Profile Sanswire-TAO Corp.
Sanswire-TAO exclusively owns and markets all the technology and
intellectual property associated with TAO's lighter-than-air (LTA) unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAV), including the Stratellite high-altitude airships,
the SAS-51 low-altitude airships, the mid-altitude STS-111 airship and
SkySat category, and the PADDS Precision Air Drop Delivery System in the
US, Canada and Mexico. Sanswire-TAO Corp. is jointly owned by TAO
Technologies GmbH and Sanswire Corp. For more information, visit
http://www.sanswire-tao.com.
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