We fill a balloon with hydrogen, attach electronic equipments to it and set it free to travel upwards at 1000 feets per minute till we stop it between 80,000-100,000 feet. 3times the zones of passenger aircraft.
We call this system a SkySite® The patented technology can do anything a satelite can do, just at lower cost.
The Skysite network works by transmitting telemetry data from the balloon platforms to remote ground stations (RGS), then to the network operations center (NOC).
The Many Benefits
For the past four years, the oil and gas companies in the USA have been saving a lot of money using this technology.
Cheapest Solution The balloons that make up the SkySite network are launched from airport hangars every day at sunset, and take about an hour and a half to reach altitude in near space about 20 miles up — higher than airplanes fly, but lower than satellites. they last up there for about 24hrs and are parachuted down. Each unit mission cost just a few thousands of dollars, compared to a few hundred millions of dollars it cost to send a satelite to space. And satelites can fail without warning.
24/7 availabilty SkySites are sent up every evening or as needed this ensures there is no lapse in coverage. So availability is guaranteed. The system was used even against hurrican Katrina
Huge coverage Instead of building tens of thousands of cell towers and still getting no signal due to power outage a few hundreds of this balloon can provide full communication for the the whole of Africa. We must make the cost of using cell phones affordable for all.
“The Skysite is a new platform that can do anything a satellite network can do,“ Because they are far less expensive than erecting towers in remote areas or using satellite communications, the SkySite alternative can significantly reduce the cost of labor-intensive technology