SHARP: Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform; basically Starlink before commercial space flight
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Don't forget to like the video and subscribe to my channel!
Support me on Patreon - / polyusstudios
The SHARP Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform was an incredible project that aimed to fly a radio repeater antenna 21kms in the air. It was powered by beaming 500kW of 5.8GHz microwaves from over a hundred ground stations. The platform could serve an area with a diameter of 600km in the most remote and inaccessible regions of the country.
0:00 Introduction
0:44 CRC's early work with satellites
1:42 Outline and scope of project
3:35 Early design work
6:15 UTIAS/CRC design studies
7:18 ISIS Sharp proposal
8:00 World's first microwave powered aircraft
9:10 Final proposal
9:32 Cancellation and Legacy
10:13 Conclusion
Music:
Denmark - Portland Cello Project
SHARP: Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform; Canada's alternative to communication satellites 
Наука
What a fascinating presentation.
As a Canadian, I am surprised to have never heard of this project.
Thank you so much !
There is no way in hell I would go up that tower. I have respect for those that are brave enough to do the job.
Absolutely amazing video, thank you so much for bringing this forgotten aircraft to our attention. Before watching this video I'd never even heard of it.
I need to visit this in the museum next time I visit the six or t.dot 🤣
That's my goal for this channel!
Great presentation! I have never heard of SHARP and appreciate the research and writing you put into each production. Well done!!
I love canadian content
The models were destroyed by field mice. Something about that makes the story sound even more Canadian. It reminds me of the film Never Cry Wolf when the arctic researcher's hut gets invaded by mice.
Another great video
I never knew about the SHARP. Very informative video as always.
informative video as always.
Cool vid
Another forgotten first for Canada. Thank you.
A big congratulations to the Communications Research Centre Canada and the University of Toronto researchers and engineers for such a fascinating and forward-looking project which was well ahead of its time. This concept is now referred to as High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS). We may well be seeing HAPS systems operational later this decade with uses cases including suburban and urban areas as well.
I have been binge watching some of your videos. Always a thumbs up.
The SHARP aircraft that was at the Canadian Air and Space Museum in Toronto, was moved to Edenvale Ontario a couple of years ago. It's exact location and condition are unknown. Hopefully it can be displayed again in the future. When it it was at the Museum, it was always a key attraction and raised many interesting questions. It was the two stroke gas version propeller driven that we had there....
Thank you for finally exposing this technology. This is only a small part of it but great to see. Facebook uses it's own version of these as do an unknown number of undisclosed organizations. Almost unknown to the general public, this is a very important part of modern life. Great video as always
This is fascinating and I would love to hear more about it. Thank you for making the video about this I didn't know it existed before now.
Why does the sound cut off at 10:40 ?
maybe he like a short ending or big satellite silenced him for knowing too much
I like how you focus on Canadian aircrafts and research projects 🇨🇦
Ah, vast stretches of land area. Canada's greatest asset _and_ difficulty! (wanders off singing "Canada's Really Big" by the Arrogant Worms)
Good on you for using Body Break as your tv insert, by the way!
Starting with body break was great.
Very cool stuff, very high production quality as always.
Amazing videos, keep em up!
@Polyus Studios great vid, again, as always! Looking forward to see if you will cover the Canadian Car and Foundry FDB-1 and the CBY-3
@@polyus_studios unfortunately....the FDB_1 had a checkered career, where as the CBY-3 (what remains of it) is located at the New England Air Museum, in Windsor Locks Conneticut - essentially near the home of Sikorsky and Pratt & Whitney (I am 1 hr 30 from Pratt & Whitney Canada).
How is there not a video on Jim Chamberlin, Owen Maynard and the rest of the Avro engineers who built the American space programme?
I remember reading this in a science magazine in Malaysia years ago... thanks for bringing back memories :)
A perfect back up in case of satellite issues 👌
Gotta be Canadian...
Fantastic idea!
This was a revolutionary idea at that time ..but now you can use multiple sources of power to make your airplane fly like solar or batteries .
Very creative.
This would make for a great servailence drone for CSIS or RCMP to keep an eye on us.
amazingly informative video! could I perhaps get a link to the song you use in every single one of your videos?
yea might be time for a new one haha
cc no it’s great, I like it. I just wanna know what song it is lol
@@polyus_studios Ah! thank you! I didn't find it in the description but I guess I should have just watched it till the end... My mistake!
@@polyus_studios awww, such a shame. I wanna let you know that the KSP replica building community is a huge fan of your work! its always very clean and informative. Your CL-84 vid is my favorite. Hope you'll keep enjoying making these as much as we enjoy watching them
@@polyus_studios Not yet! I'd love to make it some time tho.
9:45 they were probably specially train undercover soviet mice sent to sabotage it lmao
It was just a few years ago that some entrepreneurs were trying to do something similar but this time the transmission signal was WiFi and the aerial vehicle was a semi transparent unmanned blimp.
@@polyus_studios Actually the blimp was intended to fly at high altitudes. When I looked it up again Google has a blimp intended to provide WiFi to Africa.
www.wired.co.uk/article/google-blimps
Its amazing what Canada had done concerning the aerospace industry and exploration. What happened, I guess this buying from China etc even applies to the major government departments. After all money counts. After that rant I do love your channel and the information that you present. I learned quite a bit about our past aerospace and aeronautical inventions and contributions.
Audio cuts out from 10:34 to 10:46? =(
The problem I see with this is powering the ground transmitters hard to find cheap power in the north.Not much other then diesel generators and the odd hydro project.
I worked with radar systems for many years and I assure you that if you can feel any warmth from a source of microwave (non-ionizing) radiation, tissue damage has already occurred.
the point was it wasn't immedeately lethal. Dammaging sure but it wouldn't kill you.
Absolutely fascinating. Really appreciate the videos about forgotten Canadian aircraft... it's really sad that Canada's aerospace industry atrophied so much.
@@polyus_studios Yeah, I hope so too. It would be really cool if you made a video or two about future Canadian aerospace concepts, but I suppose future plans is kind of on the edge between real and speculation, so it could be unfeasible. In either case, really loving the quality of your videos man!
@@polyus_studios Yeah. Given Canada's climate, bush planes make sense. I don't really know much about them, nor do I have any leads, but it would make a really fascinating video
@@polyus_studios love me some bush aka beaver planes. See them all the time in Northern Ontario
The OG Starlink
Ever though of doing other Comonwealth aircraft?
8:48 aye its magnum lol
What an interesting concept shame the mice got to it
Nano rectifying antennas should now make this a viable technology.
@@polyus_studios I meant a large array of nano rectifiers
Strange that the disc is non-lifting, the E-2 Hawkeye shows that a lifting disc is possible.
Hmmm.. Any word on how much power was delivered to the models? Interesting stuff.
@@polyus_studios 500kW ooooooooo. That's a decent amount of power.
The next step is an electric rocket powered by ground based microwave transmitters.
dope, tell us more history when you can
Glad you liked it!
I am curious can it be developed to relay internet signal or not
Yes it could definitely have been configured that way
No way you referenced Body Break
Don't let the flat earthers learn about this. They would be all over claiming this is what we use instead of satellites because space isn't real.
the Toronto air and space museum closed permanently in 2011, so sharp is not currently on display.
im assuming the displays are currently in storage somewhere while a new home for the museum is being sought.
If it only does a 1 km circle...why would it be better than a tethered balloon? Great research platform though
What's the music...
It’s by the Portland cello project
Called Denmark
Ha go figure already doing space! Ignore my Patreon request!
7:26 i just dont understand why you would use a plane at all .. why not use an aerostat
It's too bad that the project didn't continue.
Ruined by field mice? really?
Woe I went to the UTIAS they don't do cool things anymore I can say that lol
No lol
nice french bro
Whoever said French isn't a beautiful language never heard a Canadian speaking it.