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Product category: Industrial Motors
News Release from: Powertec Industrial Motors | Subject: Brushless motors
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 03 November 2004

Brushless motors lift blimp in to
stratosphere

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Powertec brushless motors have been used to power a heavier than air dirigible (blimp) as an unmanned vehicle up to the stratosphere and back, repeating the trip as needed.

Powertec brushless motors have been used to power a heavier than air dirigible (blimp) as an unmanned vehicle up to the stratosphere and back, repeating the trip as needed The blimp is being used in Japan's Stratospheric Platform Project and this latest application of the motors follows similar uses for the same motors in Korea and by NASA-Glenn Research Centre in the USA

Powertec claimed that its brushless motors have a very high power to weight and volume ratio making that makes them suitable for such applications.

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