Don't shoot! DARPA wants to capture future spy balloons in one piece
DARPA wants to be ready the next time a foreign spy balloon does a tour of the US, so it's launching a program to figure out how to capture one and its payload instead of simply shooting it out of the sky., was announced by DARPA with the publication of a Small Business Innovation Research call for proposals for the project.
In order to do so, DARPA wants proposed solutions to be able to fly as high as 75,000 feet , and be able to catch"aerial systems of interest" as heavy as 1,500 lbs . Along with snagging the floating menaces, DARPA wants the system to do so"in a manner allowing for controlled descent … in a condition maximizing the ability for technical exploitation upon recovery."
Still, those harnessed pilots would have to be put on the ground safely, so there may be some technology for Project participants to crib.There's no secret as to the reason DARPA wants a system to safely ground spy balloons: thewhich drifted into US airspace in February was all anyone could talk about at the time, and the government is still trying to scrape the egg off its face.
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