[ExI] StratoSolar

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/11/2010 5:50 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
>> >  Interesting idea, although it does seem pretty brittle/fragile/breakable
>> >  under simple assault.
>
> It's 30 meters in diameter and made of the same kind of plastic on the
> outside as the roof at the Denver Airport.  The current design has 93
> square inches of steel wire in it.  A fighter jet would ruin it (and
> the jet) but it is not fragile.

I was thinking of a ground-launched missile.