Flying by remote control high above the clouds, and generating its power from the sun, a super-big blimp will use high-tech surveillance equipment to improve the nation's security.

Lockheed Martin hopes a demonstration flight this summer will lift the concept of high-altitude airships as persistent surveillance platforms off the drawing board and into the stratosphere.

AKRON, Ohio, July 27th, 2011 -- The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin launched the first-of-its kind High Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator this morning, demonstrating a number of key technologies ...

today awarded Lockheed Martin a $40 million design and risk reduction contract as the next phase of the advanced technology concept demonstration to deliver a high altitude airship (HAA) prototype ...

Lockheed Martin launched its HALE-D at 5:47 a.m. on July 27, 2011 out of an airdock in Akron, Ohio. The airship was aiming to reach an altitude of 60,000 ft. but encountered technical difficulties ...

Lockheed Martin has won a $400 million contract to build a high-altitude airship demonstrator featuring radar technology powerful enough to detect a car hidden under a canopy of trees from a ...

Lockheed Martin has been chosen by DARPA for a US$400 million ... test and fly a 1:3 scale model of an airship surveillance and telecommunications platform called the High Altitude Airship ...

The flight of the Lockheed Martin high-altitude long endurance-demonstrator ... The airship was unable to reach its goal altitude of 60,000 feet and its flight was cut short. Share. Post.

Lockheed Martin's beleaguered High Altitude Airship (HAA) program, or something like it, "is going to happen" in the long term despite the challenges HAA has repeatedly faced, Dave Kier, vice ...

Lockheed rolled out its next generation HALE-D or High Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator yesterday for its first flight. The idea is that the HALE-D will ascend to an altitude of about 12 miles ...

Early Wednesday morning, Lockheed Martin brought down its High Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator (HALE-D), over Greene County, Pa., after a malfunction.

Lockheed Martin is investigating why a high-altitude airship was forced to make a controlled landing less than 3h after lifting off on a maiden flight that was supposed to last several days. The ...