Ascender High Altitude Airships



Ascenders are Vee shaped airships. They are used for research, telecommunications

and ultimately space launch vehicles replacing rocket.

Ascender 26

The smaller Ascenders are used as X planes for research. For our first eight Ascender the number indicated length. Ascender 26 is twenty-six feet long. We change the number scheme and now the number indicates the order. Ascender 9 is the ninth Ascender we've built.

Ascender 36

Ascender 9

Ascenders climb near vertical until they reach peak altitude.







Orbital Ascender, The Goal.

TransAtmospheric Ascender (under development)Orbital Ascender, The Goal.

Older vehicles

Ascender 175

Length of each arm: 175 feet

Height: 42 feet

The first air inflation. The 100 foot keel truss weights 20 only pounds.

Inside mid left wing.

Earlier Ascender





Ascender 20 in flight Ascender 90 in the hanger.









Vent placement drawing for Ascender 175 from 2003.

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