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Weather balloon glider concept

Below you find some rendering of our weather balloon glider concept.

The glider is hanging on the main payload of the balloon like a bat. The main payload serving as a kind of relay satellite. The glider is sending the data to the main payload. The main payload is sending the data to the ground station:



The released glider:



The glider over Chernobyl, measering the radiation:



The glider detecting an over-ground atomic bomb test:



Many other applicabilityies would be thinkable...

Author: M. Bindhammer, Team Selene




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