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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