Powered by the sun, our remotely-piloted aircraft will fly continuously in the stratosphere for months at a time to collect aerial imagery and data. Our first stratospheric flight with the Kea Atmos Mk1 was completed in February, 2025. In addition, a range of prototype aircraft and high-altitude balloons have been flown to test subsystems and hardware.
Solar-powered, and remotely piloted the Kea Atmos flies for months at a time at an altitude of 65,000 ft (20 kilometres), in the stratosphere, carrying payloads that will acquire high-value data.
Designed to test subsystems such as autopilot, solar power management and communications, our prototype aircraft have already topped records for continual flight hours.
High altitude balloon flights are testing communications, navigation, avionics, autopilot systems, thermal modelling, thermal management and real-time environmental monitoring.