Aerostat (disambiguation)

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An aerostat is an aircraft that remains aloft through the use of lighter-than-air gases. A narrower and more technical meaning refers only to tethered balloons.

Aerostat may also refer to:

Airships are powered aerostats:

• Airship, or dirigible, any aerostat that can be manoeuvred through the air using propellers, rudders, etc.
• Blimp, an airship with no structural framework, using only gas pressure to maintain its shape
• Rigid airship, uses only a structural framework to maintain its shape
• Semi-rigid airship, uses a partial structural framework in combination with gas pressure to maintain its shape

Balloons are unpowered aerostats:

• Balloon (aircraft)
• Gas balloon
• Hot air balloon
• Vacuum balloon

The term aerostat is sometimes used to refer specifically to tethered balloons:

• Barrage balloon
• Observation balloon

• Espionage balloon
• Fire balloon

Hybrids combine aerostatic buoyancy and aerodynamic lift.

• Hybrid airship

• Kytoon

• Tethered Aerostat Radar System
• Akashdeep Aerostat
• RT Aerostats Systems

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• Balloon
• Sky lantern

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