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Cube Satellites Of The Stratosphere

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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Can You Steer a Balloon?

The company uses cameras on the bottom of balloons to capture images. Instead of steering these balloons, we just have a small mobile launch vehicle that allows us to pick our launch point and project where it will go. And if you just visualize this, if you're in the back of a pickup truck and you let go of a balloon, 300 kilometers later, we can tell you exactly where it's going to be. That seems kind of silly, but it's true. You can actually do that.

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