Balloons are inexpensive, but can be useful in many different situations. For example, they can be used to observe the surface of the Earth to monitor the weather and various natural phenomena. They may be useful for the control of forest fires or giving away the Internet, the cost of these services will be significantly lower than what is offered to satellite companies. And you can use them to entertain the thrill. Therefore, the startup World View have developed their own balloons and began to test it.
The first launch took place shortly after obtaining permission from the Federal aviation administration and was successful. Now developers are testing a variety of control balloons, suggesting that in the future they’ll be launched to a height of about thirty kilometers. Planes usually fly at an altitude of about ten kilometers, so the possibility to see the world from that height in a company going to provide including tourists.
Balloons by tourists will be controlled by qualified pilots, so afraid of in flight nothing. Passengers Stratollite will provide the opportunity to soar to an incredible height and for some time to admire the beauty of the earth, after which the aircraft will decrease due to the gas coming out of it, and tourists will be able to return to Earth using parachutes.
Price per ticket — $ 75 thousand. When it will begin flying is unclear, but the company has already started to sell tickets.
Began selling tickets for stratospheric balloons for tourists
Vyacheslav Larionov