This high-tech airship from the LifeStraw inventor could be the future of wildfire detection

A fleet of 280-foot-long helium-filled airships known as High Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) may soon hit the skies to help tackle today’s most pressing issues, including wildfire prevention. They are, essentially, enormous, shiny blimps, a modern-day alternative for stationed monitoring. Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen—founder and CEO of Sceye , the company launching them — prefers the term “stratospheric infrastructure.” Currently, wildfire monitoring is the charge of low-earth-orbit satellites