Extended flights and navigation

Extending the flight time of small latex balloons up to several hours can be achieved by controlled gas venting, providing a 'floating' platform below burst altitude, avoiding the added cost and complexity of superpressure or zero-pressure balloons.

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Coarse navigation and station-keeping is also possible via cycles of venting and ballast ejection, allowing our balloons to dwell over areas of interest.

Stabilisation and pointing

Upper-level winds can produce unwanted payload motion. This can be remedied with passive or active stabilisation systems for the gondola or payload.

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At SuperSky Engineering we understand the need for gondola stabilisation in a range of applications, including camera and antenna pointing.

Autonomous high-altitude platforms

Our high-altitude balloon platforms can operate as autonomous 'aerobots', enabling constellations of High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS) with added benefits for civil and defence applications, such as:

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• constant observations

• increased ground coverage

• reliability through redundancy

• robust wireless mesh networks