Small But Mighty: Stratospheric Microballooons

Stratospheric balloons are routinely used for Earth imaging and environmental monitoring in the upper atmosphere. The balloons are often enormous in size — several hundred feet —and when inflated could engulf an entire football stadium. Urban Sky, a Denver-based stratospheric technology and remote sensing startup, has miniaturized the technology for collecting images and data of the Earth by developing small stratospheric balloons.