World View Stratollite Fleet to Provide High Resolution Imagery, Data Analytics in the Americas
BROOMFIELD, Co. – World View, the stratospheric data and information services company, has announced their plans to build and deploy a fleet of Stratollites, known as World View Orbits, over North and Central America starting this summer.
After a series of successful test and development flights to sharpen vehicle flight and navigation capabilities, World View is in final preparations to offer customers high resolution imagery and associated analytics products from an integrated network of vehicles operating in the stratosphere for a variety of use cases.
Speaking at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in Broomfield, Colorado, World View President & CEO Ryan Hartman said, “We are excited to be on the cusp of delivering high value services to initial customers in North and Central America. Our Stratollite fleet will begin launching in the summer timeframe, and initial operational capability (IOC) will follow thereafter with a build-up to full fleet operations expected in first half of 2021.”
World View will provide high resolution imagery access at 15cm ground sample distance (GSD) using precision instruments provided by the company’s industry partners and suppliers. Imagery delivery to end users is via the company’s secure data portal on the World View website.
“As we continue our efforts to build out the stratospheric ecosystem, we are utilizing the best the industry has to offer in terms of commercial instrumentation. However, we are also in the process of implementing a custom electro-optical (EO) sensor to provide higher resolution imagery at better than 5cm GSD,” said World View Senior Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing Dr. Matteo Genna.
Dr. Genna added, “The unique ability to safely land and refurbish the Stratollite allows continuous upgrades and enhancements during operational services delivery.”
For more information, please visit WorldView.space or follow us on Twitter @WorldViewSpace.
About World View® Enterprises, Inc. & Stratollite
World View is pioneering revolutionary stratospheric capabilities that allow humanity to inspire, create and explore new perspectives for a radically improved future. Its principal innovation, the Stratollite™, offers low cost, long-duration, persistent high-altitude flight for commercial and government customers. Using advanced stratospheric balloon technology, Stratollite can move to and from desired locations and loiter above them for long durations. The vehicle carries a wide variety of commercial payloads (sensors, telescopes, communications arrays, etc.), launch rapidly on demand and safely return payloads back to Earth after mission completion. Among its wide variety of uses, the Stratollite will help researchers greatly advance knowledge of planet Earth, improve the ability to identify and track severe weather, and assist first responders during natural disasters. To learn more, visit www.WorldView.space.
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Don’t worry, it’s just another tool for law enforcement, which we all know can do no wrong.
I know you are being sarcastic, which is the only thing keeping me from going on an extended rant.
Oh come on, the police are vetted. They can do no wrong. 🙂 They just want to help people, they should be given every tool technically feasible. It’s to help them help you. What do you have to hide? Don’t you know the police need to know everything but must operate in complete secrecy?
They’re not the STASI when they’re Americans.
Well played.
Let’s not forget their role in imaging tornadic thunderstorms.
Those might even be a problem for the stratolites–some reach 60-70,000 feet
https://stormtrack.org/comm…
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Except when they’re the FBI acting for the FBP – that would be the First Black President.
No that’s the FBI doing just what they are supposed to, track an American citizen reaching out and entering into concert with foreign intelligence agents. Once you and insurgents like you are exposed for what they are, those agents are going to get medals and movies made about how they did the right thing and were then pressured by perp who they investigated.
The only people who “entered into concert with foreign intelligence agents” were on the Clinton campaign when they paid that unfrocked MI6-er to turn up “dirt” on Trump. The FBI-ers and CIA-ers who later picked up this tainted ball and ran with it aren’t going to get any hagiographic movies made about them, they’re going to get indicted, convicted and jailed.
Go ahead and convict her. You guys have Barr’s Justice dept. That they have not goes to show you how weak your case is. Not to mention what would come out as the defense gets to exercise discovery. No doubt, that’s something Barr is trying to avoid. Otherwise they’d have made charges. That story is there to whip you up and give you a corner to go to when it comes to the family dynasty who is truly plugs themselves into foreign revenue streams and intelligence agencies. Face it Dick, everything you hate the Clintons for the Trumps are doing right in front of your face. Even your fantasy about Hunter Biden, Trumps son in law and daughter are doing it all in front of your face and you lap it up.
If ICE wants to use it to look for “leakers” at the southern border, I’m all for it.
Didn’t the CIA or Air Force tried this back in the 50’s…? Was a crappy idea then, so is now.