SPACE BALLOON TECHNOLOGIES CORP. - Florida Company Profile

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2026-05-19

2025-05-21

2018-03-05

2024-09-10

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Department of Commerce

PURPOSE: ABSTRACT: SPACELOON IS DEVELOPING A NOVEL CONTROLLED ALTITUDE BALLOONING (CAB) PLATFORM TO PERFORM BI-DIRECTIONAL SAMPLING ACROSS MULTIPLE ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS, FROM THE TROPOSPHERE TO THE MESOSPHERE. TO DATE, STATE-OF-THE-ART HIGH-ALTITUDE PLATFORMS ARE LIMITED TO THE STRATOSPHERE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (NWS), TWICE A DAY, GLOBALLY USES UNIDIRECTIONAL RADIOSONDE AND RAWINSONDE PLATFORMS FOR RECORDING WEATHER OBSERVATIONS, CREATING A VOID IN ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS ON A DAILY TIME SCALE AND AT ALTITUDE SCALE. WITH FIVE TIMES INCREASED OBSERVATION AT TWO TIMES HIGHER ALTITUDES, CAB WILL ENABLE NEW CLIMATE OBSERVING AND MONITORING CAPABILITIES AND DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE FORECAST MODELING. SPACELOONS PATENT-PENDING CAB TECHNOLOGY IS A HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMBINATION THAT ALTERS AND CONTROLS THE BALLOON SIZE WITHIN ITS BURST LIMITS, ENABLING THE BALLOONS EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION MULTIPLE TIMES IN A SINGLE FLIGHT. CAB FACILITATES CONTROLLED ASCENT AND DESCENT THROUGHOUT THE ATMOSPHERE FROM THE GROUND TO THE MESOSPHERE. AS OPPOSED TO CONVENTIONAL ASSUMPTIONS, THE ASCENT RATE CHANGES WITH ALTITUDE AND IS CORRELATED WITH THE ENERGY STATE AND POWER MANAGEMENT OF THE BALLOON. IN PHASE-I, WE ACHIEVED CABS CONTROL ALTERATION CAPABILITY FOR FLIGHT ASCENT PROFILE, COLLECTING ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMIC AND THERMODYNAMIC MEASUREMENTS. IN PHASE-II, WE WILL ACHIEVE CONTROL DESCENT CAPABILITY WITH FLIGHT RECOVERY AND PERFORM MESOSPHERIC (>50 KM) TEST FLIGHTS. SUMMARY OF THE ANTICIPATED RESULTS: THE PROPOSED PHASE-II RESEARCH WILL RESULT IN A MARKET-READY OPERATIONAL PLATFORM FOR NOVEL MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES FROM THE GROUND TO THE MESOSPHERE ABOVE 50 KM. PHASE-II ACTIVITIES WILL BUILD ON THE LABORATORY AND FIELD TESTING CONDUCTED IN PHASE-I, MATURING OUR TECHNOLOGY TO BE HIGHLY RELIABLE AND FULLY RECOVERABLE. TOWARD THE END OF PHASEII, WE ANTICIPATE CAB CARRYING A PAYLOAD OF MORE THAN 3 KG. IN A TYPICAL USE SCENARIO, THE BALLOON WILL FOLLOW A DEFINED PROFILE DURING FLIGHT TRANSPORT. THE ATTACHED PAYLOAD WILL COLLECT THE ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS ALONG THE FLIGHT PATH, AND THEN COMPLETING THE PROFILE BRING THE PAYLOAD BACK TO THE GROUND. CAB WILL FOLLOW THE PROFILE PATTERN BY PERFORMING CONTROLLED ASCENT TO ALTITUDES OF MORE THAN 50 KM FOLLOWED BY ALTITUDE DESCENT OF MORE THAN 10 KM IN ONE CYCLE. WE ANTICIPATE CAB WILL PERFORM THREE SUCH CYCLES OF CONTROLLED ASCENT AND DESCENT IN A SINGLE FLIGHT AND THEN, WITH COMPLETE CONTROL DESCENT, BRING DOWN THE ATTACHED PAYLOAD TO THE GROUND SAFELY. WE ANTICIPATE THE FLIGHTS WILL BE FULLY RECOVERABLE AND RETRIEVABLE.

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2023-07-17

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Department of Commerce

SPACELOON PROPOSES TO DESIGN, PROTOTYPE, AND TEST A CONSISTENT, RELIABLE, AND BI-DIRECTIONAL CONTROLLED ALTITUDE BALLOONING (CAB) SYSTEM FOR MONITORING CLIMATE CONSTITUENTS, SUCH AS ENERGETIC PARTICLES (SOLAR AND COSMIC) AND THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES, ACROSS VARIOUS ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS. THE ABSENCE OF LINKAGE BETWEEN SPACE WEATHER EVENTS AND ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND DYNAMICS, CREATES VOIDS IN UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE VARIABILITY. TO HARNESS MEASUREMENTS DIRECTLY CONNECTING SPACE WEATHER PHENOMENA WITH ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE AND DYNAMICS ACROSS MULTIPLE ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS, BETTER BALLOON PLATFORMS ARE REQUIRED. SPACELOON'S CAB, A PATENT-PENDING TECHNOLOGY, IS A COMBINATION OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE THAT PROVIDES CONTROLLED ALTITUDE BALLOON FLIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DATA COLLECTION BY VARYING THE BALLOON SIZE WITHOUT BURSTING AND FACILITATES ACCESS TO THE DESIRED ALTITUDES THROUGHOUT THE ATMOSPHERE FROM GROUND TO THE MESOSPHERE. CONTROLLED BALLOON SIZE VARIATION WITHIN THE BURSTS LIMIT

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2022-08-05

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National Science Foundation

SBIR PHASE I: SUB-ORBITAL BALLOONING SYSTEM FOR LOW-COST, INSTANT, AND LONG-DURATION MESOSPHERIC ACCESS FOR RESEARCH, TESTING, AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS -THE BROADER IMPACT/COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL OF THIS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE-I PROJECT IS THE CREATION OF A NEW, STATE-OF-THE-ART, LOW-COST, SEMI-AUTOMATIC. ULTRA-HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON SYSTEM FOR SUBORBITAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. THE TECHNOLOGY SEEKS TO PROVIDE ROUTINE SUB-ORBITAL ATMOSPHERIC FLIGHTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING OF PAYLOADS IN THE ULTRA-LOW VACUUM OF THE MESOSPHERE (260,000 FEET). THE TECHNOLOGY ALSO SEEKS TO TRANSPORT METROLOGICAL PAYLOADS, SUCH AS RADIOSONDES (THAT MEASURES PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY) AND RAWINSONDES (THAT EVALUATE WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION, TEMPERATURE, PRESSURE, AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY) AT ALL ALTITUDES FROM THE GROUND TO 260,000 FEET FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME. THIS CAPABILITY IS ESPECIALLY CRITICAL FOR INCREASING THE SUCCESS RATE OF SPACE MISSIONS. THE NEW TESTING CAPABILITY MAY SAVE THE SPACE INDUSTRY HUNDREDS OF MILLION DOLLARS IN TECHNOLOGY FAILURES ANNUALLY. THE TRANSPORTATION OF METROLOGICAL PAYLOADS TO THE UPPER EXTREMES OF THE ATMOSPHERE FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME MAY ALSO PROVIDE IMPROVED ACCURACY OF WEATHER FORECASTS. THIS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE I PROJECT SEEKS TO SOLVE WELL-KNOWN PROBLEMS THAT PREVENT BALLOONS FROM TAKING PAYLOADS TO THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP HARDWARE PROTOTYPES, PERFORM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, AND INTEGRATE THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE TOGETHER. THE TEAM WILL PERFORM FLIGHT DEMONSTRATIONS TO CHARACTERIZE THE IMPACT OF THE MESOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE BALLOONING FLIGHT TRANSPORT AND DEMONSTRATE THE LOW-COST PAYLOAD TRANSPORT TO THE MESOSPHERIC SUB-ORBITAL ALTITUDES FOR A LONG DURATION (> HOUR). THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

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