The company “Stratonovich” reported about the successful testing of the first manned flight into the stratosphere.
“Stratonovich” acts as the operator of the stratospheric launches in 2010. Its main goal is the manned flights into the stratosphere. She made hundreds of runs. Now the first launch on the manned program.
As reported by the company, completed the first phase of testing of the complex manned stratospheric flight. In the process have been worked out the cluster stratospheric launch. Were successful tests of parachute, spacesuit, suspension system, uncoupling and radio telemetry, and were reached the target altitude of 25 km. in addition, the landing occurred exactly in the computational area 50 km from the starting point.
The spacesuit “Sokol” with sensors and cameras were raised on clustered high-altitude balloon to a height of 25.7 km, the Stratosphere consists of six balloons filled with helium.