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The Stratollite is primarily used for applications including remote sensing, communications, and weather. [3] The Stratollite consists of a high-altitude balloon which lofts up a large solar panel and a payload gondola. The Stratollite also has a steerable parachute for soft return to ground after mission, enabling payload recovery.
refine VTOL (high altitude) Cancelled Starhopper: demonstrate VTOL Retired (4 test flights) Starship prototypes: demonstrate VTOL Retired (7 test flight) Swedish Space Corp. Maxus: payload to 700 km Operational Maser: payload to 300 km Operational UP Aerospace: SpaceLoft XL: payload to 140 km Operational [204] World View Enterprises: Stratollite
Proponents claim a high-altitude communications platform, like the Stratellite, could make terrestrial broadcast towers obsolete, reducing the cost and time required for hardware updates. An update made to a single unit would effectively cascade to an entire grid of virtual broadcast towers.
The BLAST high-altitude balloon just before launch on June 12, 2005. High-altitude balloons or stratostats are usually uncrewed balloons typically filled with helium or hydrogen and released into the stratosphere, generally attaining between 18 and 37 km (11 and 23 mi; 59,000 and 121,000 ft) above sea level.
A statement from NORAD, shared with The Independent, read: “In close coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected a ...
Urban Sky was founded in 2019 with the goal of increasing access to the stratosphere, and reducing the cost of remote sensing through balloon miniaturization and new approaches to balloon control. In 2020 Urban Sky began routine stratospheric operations and became the first company ever to reuse a stratospheric balloon. [3] [7]
In June 2014, Paragon announced that its offshoot company, World View Enterprises, Inc., successfully completed a scaled systems test of the proposed nominal tourist flight profile to nearspace. World View uses a high-altitude balloon to rise to 32 km (20 miles) above the earth, after which it returns gently back down to earth beneath a ...
A high-altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple ...