SOLAR SHIP

Solar Ship's team worked hard into the nights designing and preparing the quote to bid on the 5 aerostats. Every time the bid came in, it seemed the customer wanted to change something. The more the Solar Ship team worked on aerostats, the more they saw the economic weaknesses in traditional aerostats. The team started to look at how to apply aerostats to peacekeeping missions in Africa and for anti-poaching. The demand was there, but there is no way the number of aerostats required could be made at the extremely high costs associated with building and operating traditional cigar-shaped aerostats. Solar Ship decided to start working on a low cost, extremely robust, self-reliant design capable of connecting vast areas with no infrastructure... In 2016, Solar Ship brought senior RCAF veterans to Africa to develop the operations strategy for unlocking the Great Lakes region of Africa. This is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with mountainous terrain and frequent..

Also known as: Solar Ship Inc.