Digital agencies
For campaigns that need a powerful visual moment, an authentic story and a natural reason to share.
Media platform / approximately 30 kmYour brand.
Your brand.
At the edge of space.
We design and carry out high-altitude balloon flights for products, experiments, prototypes and communication projects. We take the payload to approximately 30 kilometres and record its journey in unique images above Earth.
≈ 30 kmtarget altitude
360° · 4Kcamera system
2–2.5 hestimated flight time
≈ 40 minprime segment at 23–30 km
A new media space
A mission designed around your objective.
A stratospheric flight is not limited to one type of payload. Subject to technical assessment, the gondola can carry a product, prototype, measuring device, scientific experiment, artwork or another safe payload. The camera system and presentation method are tailored to the mission.
We provide engineering, gondola preparation, trajectory planning, launch, GPS tracking, visual recording and recovery after landing. Every moment exists only once; real light, cloud and flight conditions shape the result.
Turn an idea into an event.
Companies and innovators
For a product, technology, prototype, measuring device or experiment that needs a real mission and credible documentation.
Marketing agencies
A flexible platform for launches, brand activations, research projects and content for multiple media channels.
Mission anatomyTwo hours of flight.
Two hours of flight.
One journey upwards.
The launch is planned from an open site according to suitable weather and trajectory forecasts. The gondola contains electronics, power, communications, GPS tracking, a parachute and camera equipment.
Launch and landscape
The balloon climbs at an average of about 6 m/s. The camera records the launch site, towns, roads, fields and forests, much like the view from a light aircraft.
Cloud layers
Passages through cloud can create dramatic textures and shadows; in different weather there may be very little cloud or none at all.
Above commercial aviation
Clouds remain below the gondola, fine ground detail disappears and the sky begins to darken. Humans could not survive here without specialised equipment.
Lower stratosphere
The atmosphere thins significantly, the horizon expands and the first signs of Earth’s curvature appear.
Mission sweet spot
Earth’s curvature is clear and the sky becomes almost black. Roughly forty minutes in this zone form the most valuable media segment of the mission.
Burst, parachute, recovery
The balloon expands from about 2.5 metres to 10–12 metres before bursting. After a brief fast, rotating descent, the parachute opens and GPS enables recovery.
A payload designed for your project
Product. Experiment. Prototype. Story.
We do not prescribe the payload or how it must be presented. Together we assess dimensions, weight, safety and the required outcome, then design the gondola, mounting, measurements and camera views around the mission objective.
- product and brand missions,
- scientific and technology experiments,
- prototypes, sensors and measuring instruments,
- professional visual material for further communication.
See what the journey looks like.
▶YouTube / Ústecká ObservatoryFootage from a stratospheric flight
Transparent expectations
A real mission, not a guaranteed backdrop.
The maximum altitude cannot be guaranteed precisely. It depends on the balloon, payload mass, amount of lifting gas, temperature, pressure and weather. The balloon may burst at around 30 kilometres or several kilometres higher.
During the first moments of descent, the gondola may rotate and the image or telemetry may become temporarily unstable. Feasibility, equipment, recording method and deliverables are therefore defined only after a technical assessment of the payload. Safety and weather always take priority.
Earth from a perspective
that cannot be staged.
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Take your project beyond ordinary limits.
We will discuss the payload, mission objective, technical requirements, documentation, date, weather and a realistic flight scenario.
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