We’re conducting a flight campaign for our prototype high-altitude airship through 2025. We are primarily testing the Stratoship’s propulsion and control system and persistence in the stratosphere.

We have spare payload capacity on most of our 2025 flights. We are inviting anyone who wants to test their technology in the stratosphere to join us at a fraction of the normal cost on these flights. 

We’re open to payloads of all kinds, including cameras, sensors, communications devices, research, school and art projects. As long as it weighs less than 10 kilograms (22 lbs), we can almost certainly carry it for you. 

We’re aiming for the stratosphere, above 60,000 feet (18.3 kilometres). These are experimental flights, and we will be changing aspects of each flight, including the altitude. Please contact us if you have any specific altitude requirements.

The first few flights are expected to last around 4 to 6 hours from launch to landing, including around 2 to 4 hours in the stratosphere. We’re planning to progress to longer-duration flights of up to 7 days later in the year.

Yes you can. We are planning flights every 6-8 weeks. Contact us sooner rather than later if you’d like to book on a future flight to lock in your rideshare spot.

At this stage, we’re planning to fly once every 6-8 weeks in 2025.

We have already obtained regulatory approval for our 2025 test flight campaign and will launch from a location North of Winton in central Queensland. The region consists of agricultural grassland, used mostly for cattle and sheep farming and is suitable for a variety of tests.

We’re able to fly in the daytime or overnight. Our first couple of flights in 2025 will launch when the conditions are right, meaning they could happen at any time. Later in the test flight campaign, we’ll be able to plan specific daytime, nighttime and multi-day flights. If your payload has a specific time of day requirement, let us know and we’ll accommodate you.

Success in the 2025 flights will open the door for us to fly in more locations and to conduct more targeted flight profiles. If you have a specific location requirement, please contact us. We offer other services which may suit your needs, and will work with you to find the best path forward.

Rideshare slots are heavily discounted during the 2025 flight campaign.

The exact cost will depend on your payload’s weight, size, integration complexity, and requirements.

For our 2025 campaign, we’re flying a prototype. It’s not yet proven, and it’s far from refined. We’re conducting these flights first and foremost as R&D flights to develop our own stratospheric capability. The great thing for you is that we’re offering rideshare at heavily discounted rates during this campaign.

We understand this may not suit everybody, which is why we can also offer milestone- or performance-based payments, still at attractively discounted rates well below commercial rates for our 2025 campaign. We also offer other services which may suit your needs.