Mark Rober, a very popular ex-NASA YouTuber reached out to us to collaborate on an ambitious mission of dropping an egg from the edge of space and performing a soft, precision landing. The mission took many weeks of effort, several balloon flights, and many design tweaks but the end result was pretty spectacular. The YouTube video was released several weeks ago, went #1 on trending, and already has 29 million views! For more information, check out the detailed project page here.
This is What Technology Development Looks Like
Follow us on our journey to developing our weather forecasting technology for the prime time.
Our end goal of this NOAA GNSS-RO balloon project is to deploy our systems to collect real-time data and have operational impacts to global weather forecasting.
To accomplish that goal, many steps need to be taken to ensure our technology is ready. The technology development pipeline goes something like this: idea creation, lab testing, flight testing, data validation, and engineering development. Here’s a video of an early flight test we performed in late 2018. Enjoy!