The company says its balloons can simply deploy from the back of a truck.
. The company says it is ready to start serving customers with its balloons, which can be deployed from the back of a pickup truck and ascend into the sky in just minutes.” high-altitude balloons that can float to the stratosphere carrying a small payload and maintain a constant position over an area. About the size of a Volkswagen bus at launch, these balloons ultimately inflate to be the size of a small car garage in the air.
The company’s origins can be traced back to a program called StratEx, a plan hatched by former Google executive Alan Eustace which resulted in him performing the world’s highest skydive from underneath a stratospheric balloon. Antonio and Urban Sky co-founder Jared Leidich worked on the project together, which first introduced them to stratospheric balloons. During development, the team would often fly smaller balloons equipped with GoPros next to the more massive balloons for monitoring.
Antonio and Leidich eventually moved on to World View, a company aimed at using larger stratospheric balloons for Earth monitoring and eventually sending tourists to the stratosphere on leisurely joyrides. Ultimately the pair broke away to form their own high-altitude balloon company with the goal of mimicking the trajectory of the satellite industry, where payloads have miniaturized over the last couple of decades.
They eventually came up with their final microballoon product, which can carry imaging and data-collecting payloads weighing no more than six pounds. The balloons can sit anywhere between 17 and 21 kilometers high, staying stable within tens of meters, according to Urban Sky. The company says that customers need to give roughly 24 hours’ notice to plan for a dedicated mission, which is also dependent on good weather. One mission typically will last between four to seven hours.
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