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Technology
Our innovative technology integrates both hardware and software into a purpose-built balloon architecture designed for high-altitude operations. The system is centered around a gondola that houses mission-critical avionics, communication systems, and payloads tailored to specific applications such as surveillance, remote sensing, or communications relay.
Altitude is precisely regulated through a ballaster-venter system, enabling controlled release of ballast and helium venting to maintain stability over long-duration flights. This capability is essential for station-keeping and ensuring reliable performance in the challenging stratospheric environment.
At the heart of the platform is a microcontroller-based flight computer, which executes real-time wind prediction, navigation, and control algorithms. By processing atmospheric data onboard, the system can dynamically adjust flight parameters, optimize path planning, and maintain operations within designated mission areas.
This seamless integration of hardware robustness and advanced software intelligence allows Stratotegic’s balloon platform to deliver persistent, autonomous, and cost-effective stratospheric operations.
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Enhanced Navigation
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Increase mission performance
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Keep your vehicle within the bounds of your mission
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Recover payloads after termination
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Fully Autonomous
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Manage more vehicles per operator
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Continue the mission, even in a communication blackout
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All-in-One Solution
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Stratotegic provides an All-in-One balloon platform solution to get you the data you need
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Energy Efficient
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Leverage the stratospheric winds and decrease power consumption by up to 50%
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Decrease Costs
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Development
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Operations
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Mission related
Increase Mission Effectiveness With Stratotegic Navigation
Navigation is the biggest challenge facing the High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) industry. Stratotegic is tackling that problem so that HAPS can be widely adopted and the benefits of these technologies can be realized. Stratotegic Navigation is designed to provide an end to end solution for HAPS navigation including on board command and control, wind modelling and path optimization, and ground control capabilities to enable enhanced station keeping and waypoint following for Lighter Than Air (LTA) HAPS.
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Increase mission performance
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Keep your vehicle within the bounds of your mission
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Recover payloads after termination
Enhanced Navigation
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Stratotegic will customize software and hardware to meet existing interface specifications
Fully Integrable
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Manage more vehicles per operator
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Continue the mission, even in a communication blackout
Decrease Costs
Fully Autonomous
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Development
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Operations
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Mission related
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Leverage the stratospheric winds and decrease power consumption by up to 50%
Energy Efficient
Precise Altitude Control is an essential building block for accurate navigation in the stratosphere. Through R&D partnerships, Stratotegic has developed a flexible altitude control system that maintains performance in all stratospheric conditions. Paired with Stratotegic Navigation's fully autonomous system, your HAPS will be ready to maximize value for your customer's missions.
Altitude Controller & On-Board Navigation
Path Planning & Optimization
Path planning and optimization is a critical part of every mission. An optimized path plan is necessary for both receiving clearance to fly from authorities as well as predicting where your vehicle will be many hours into the future. Stratotegic Navigation utilizes our in house built wind models, leveraging advanced mathematics and Artificial intelligence to deliver the most accurate trajectory and provide you with mission critical information when you need it.
Ground Station
The Ground Station is your hub for everything related to your vehicles. To reduce operator workload, the ground station has been designed with automation at the center. Only alerts that require operator attention will be announced therefore reducing the workload exponentially and enabling a single operator to operate more vehicles safely and effectively.
Altitude Controller & On-Board Navigation
Stratotegic’s altitude control system ensures precise navigation in all stratospheric conditions. Combined with our fully autonomous navigation, your HAPS is ready to deliver maximum mission value.
Path Planning & Optimization
Stratotegic Navigation uses proprietary wind models with AI to deliver highly accurate path planning and trajectory predictions—helping secure flight clearance and ensuring mission-critical insight when you need it.
Ground Station
Our Ground Station is built for automation, minimizing workload by only flagging critical alerts—enabling one operator to safely manage multiple vehicles.
Our Differentiator
With our team’s expertise, we have developed a high-fidelity digital twin that accurately models the behavior of our High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) systems in real-world conditions. This environment allows us to visualize flight trajectories before launch, helping operators make informed decisions, mitigate risks, and optimize mission outcomes.
The digital twin integrates physics-based models, atmospheric data, and control algorithms to replicate balloon dynamics, altitude control, and navigation performance. By running full-scale simulations, we can test strategies, validate system robustness, and ensure our platform meets the demands of stratospheric operations—all before a single balloon leaves the ground.
The visualization demonstrates our path planning algorithm, control strategies, and simulation framework, which leverages historical atmospheric data to validate the software’s ability to maintain the balloon platform within a 50 km operational radius.
The figure to the left depicts the ground track of the balloon platform throughout its simulated flight.
Stratospheric Solutions and Services
GET IN TOUCH
Tel. 613-885-0475
info@stratotegic.com
203-348 Bagot Street
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Canada
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