China’s Modern Zeppelin Is a Solar-Powered Giant of the Skies That Travels Near Space

Seen as a tremendous engineering discovery of the beginning of the 19th century, the principal feature of Zeppelin’s design was a fabric-covered rigid metal framework made up of traverse rings and longitudinal girders containing some individual gasbags. Aside from the fact that it’s a rigid airship, however, China’s new aircraft is not that similar. We haven’t been watching the news that much latel…