Stealing a page from Rudyard Kipling - whose 1905 tale With the Night Mail envisioned a utopia in which transatlantic blimps revolutionized the postal service - Advanced Technologies Group is taking on the telecom industry. The London firm's StratSat airship (www.airship.com) offers a safe, low-cost alternative to conventional satellites and ground-based transponders. Filled with helium and fueled by gas and solar power, the ATG dirigibles hover 12 miles above Earth, safely over manned air traffic, and can maintain their positions within a half-mile radius for three to five years. Each can carry more than a ton of transmitting equipment and cover an area of about 72 miles - enough to serve a big city or even a small country. And ATG's got takers: Photran, a company backed by the Malaysian government, is signed up for a test-drive.
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