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Barreiro


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Owner and founder of Quarkson, long endurance unmanned aerial system company.


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Miguel Angelo commented on Miguel Angelo's blog post The First Low Orbit Atmospheric Satellite ever Built in the World
"Patrick, currently we are trying to urgently negotiate with the Portuguese Government to kick-start this project in Portugal. If not possible we will develop it in Europe or in the US, it all depends on political will. Last Friday we received the…"
Sep 15, 2014
Miguel Angelo commented on Miguel Angelo's blog post The First Low Orbit Atmospheric Satellite ever Built in the World
"Gary, we believe SkyOrbiters can do a better job than Google’s balloon-based Project Loon. SkyOrbiters can remain directly over a specific point of interest for extended periods of time while balloons have limited controls and will drift on the…"
Sep 14, 2014
Miguel Angelo commented on Miguel Angelo's blog post The First Low Orbit Atmospheric Satellite ever Built in the World
"Chris, thanks for the positive feedback. Let me try to answer your questions.
Atmospheric satellites or as we call it SkyOrbiters are able to perform certain tasks more economically and with more versatility than low earth orbit satellites, which…"
Sep 14, 2014
Miguel Angelo commented on Miguel Angelo's blog post The First Low Orbit Atmospheric Satellite ever Built in the World
"At Quarkson we consider the Zephyre a High Altitude Global Persistence Aerial Platform similar to the SkyOrbiter HA75 (75 meter wingspan) we are committed to build. Unlike the Zephyre the SkyOrbiter LA25 is not solar powered and is designed to stay…"
Sep 14, 2014
Miguel Angelo posted a blog post
In a tiny country, with very limited resources at Quarkson we have just built the first SkyOrbiter (Extreme Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) capable of flying around the world and who knows in the near future spread internet access to two…
Sep 13, 2014