Stratoship Launches Payload Rideshare

Commencing April 2025, Stratoship is taking rideshare payloads on our R&D test flights.

Stratospheric flights serve as a validation environment between ground testing and deployment that offers benefits like a space-like environment, the ability to retrieve a payload, and more time in the stratosphere per flight compared to a balloon.

Photo from the stratosphere over the Victorian and South Australian border.

Payload rideshare can be used for testing, research or data collection, and is ideal for any organisation looking to explore capabilities from the stratosphere or test in a near-space environment. Satellite companies can perform space payload testing and validation from the stratosphere before launching their technology into orbit. Ground and aviation based payloads can test expansion of their capabilities and performance from the stratosphere.

For more information about payload testing, see our Rideshare page.