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The Explorer human spaceflight experience (so called by World View, even though the flight would not reach space by any standards) is under development with the goal of carrying private individuals to approximately 100,000 ft (30.48 km) above Earth inside a pressurized capsule lofted by a helium-filled high-altitude balloon.
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.
X-Bow Systems Bolt Light rocket 1 LEO Development July 2022 [162] [163] Zero2infinity: Bloostar: Rockoon system (high-altitude balloon and space launcher) 3 + high-altitude balloon LEO Development Unknown [164]
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.
The presence of the high-altitude balloon comes approximately one year after a high-altitude balloon originating from China drifted over the US, causing national attention and political tension.
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 ...
Zero 2 Infinity (0II∞, sometimes rendered as Zero2Infinity) is a private Spanish company developing high-altitude balloons intended to provide access to near space and low Earth orbit using a balloon-borne pod and a balloon-borne launcher. The company was founded in 2009 by aerospace engineer Jose Mariano
The overall company — Continental American Corp., which does business as Pioneer Balloon — declared Chapter 11 along with Ohio-based Pioneer National Latex, a subsidiary the parent company ...