Core Memory podcast: Sceye's $100M high-altitude airship wins SoftBank fleet order for Japan broadband
kyliebytes · x · 2026-11-13
Ashlee Vance's Core Memory podcast (EP96) interviews Sceye founder/CEO Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen about the company's High-Altitude Platform System — an inflatable airship that flies thousands of miles, then loiters over one location far longer than a drone and closer than a satellite, beaming down telecom/internet service or carrying mounted payloads. Vestergaard also built PermaNet anti-malaria nets and LifeStraw. A Sceye airship flew to Japan for trials; SoftBank liked the results enough to order a fleet of HAPS for nationwide mobile broadband across Japan.
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