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1. ® ®
World
View:
Tourist,
Research,
Educa6on,
And
Commercial
Stratospheric
Ballooning
Alan
Stern
Chief
Scien6st
World
View

2. ®
Making
the
space
fron1er
accessible
• Launching
people
&
equipment
gently
to
the
edge
of
space.
• Making
travel
to
the
space
fron6er
as
accessible
as
flying
on
commercial
airplanes;
for
people,
for
science,
and
for
business.
• Leading
the
emergence
of
a
new
economy
in
the
green
field
of
the
high
stratosphere.

3. ®

4. ®
A
Luxury
Cabin
for
6
Passengers
and
2
Crew

5. ®
Jane
Poynter,
CEO,
Co-­‐Founder
Co-­‐founder,
Paragon
Space
Dev.
Corp,
specializing
in
space
technologies.
Member
of
design
team
and
first
crew
to
live
inside
Biosphere
2
for
two
years
Taber
MacCallum,
CTO,
Co-­‐Founder
Co-­‐founder,
Paragon.
Member
of
design
team
and
first
crew
to
live
inside
Biosphere
2
for
two
years
Dr.
Alan
Stern,
Chief
Scien1st,
Co-­‐Founder
Planetary
scien1st,
Former
NASA
Assoc.
Administrator
for
Science,
Assoc.
VP
Southwest
Research
Ins1tute,
Suborbital
scien1st.
Astronaut
Mark
Kelly,
Director
of
Flight
Crew
Opera1ons
Four
ShuQle
flights:
piloted
two,
commanded
two.
Re1red
U.S
Navy
Captain
and
test
pilot,
flying
over
60
different
aircraW.
39
combat
missions
in
Desert
Storm
Management
Team

6. ®
Partners
• Paragon
Space
Development
Corpora1on:
Human
spaceflight
and
high
al1tude
ballooning
experience,
gondola
produc1on
• Priestman
Goode:
Award-­‐winning
designers,
cabin
design
• United
Parachute
Technologies:
ShuQle
parachutes

7. ®
The
World
View
Experience
here

8. ®
Tourism
Market:
Value
Proposi1on
• View Earth from
space for hours.
• 6 flyers with 2 crew.
• $75,000 ticket.
• Gentle flight.
• No extreme
environments,
medicals, training,
or special gear to
wear.

9. ®
Business
Market:
Stratollites
Stratospheric
satellites:
Carrying
instruments
around
the
globe,
like
near-­‐earth
satellites—but
at
a
frac1on
of
the
cost.

10. ®
Stratollites,
Es1mated
at
a
$5B
Market
Communica6ons
Research
&
Educa6on
First
Response
Surveillance
Weather
Remote
Sensing

11. ®
• oil
and
gas
pipeline
surveillance
• natural
disaster
communica6ons
and
remote
sensing
• narco6cs
interdic6on
• border
patrol
• agricultural
crop
monitoring
Communica6ons
Research
&
Educa6on
First
Response
Surveillance
Weather
Remote
Sensing
Other
Applica6ons
Stratollites,
Es1mated
at
a
$5B
Market

12. ®®
REM:
A
Worldwide
Research
&
Educa6on
Market
• World
View
offers
human-­‐tended
and
automated
research
and
educa6on
plaTorms
to
na6ons
across
the
world.
• A
research
seat
on
World
View
is
1/300th
the
cost
of
a
ride
to
orbit;
less
expensive
and
longer
dura6on
than
a
suborbital
flight.
• With
numerous
REM
applica6ons.

13. ®
Key Advantage Research Rationale Improves
over
Human Tended Instruments not automated, less expensive
Researchers dynamically perform & adjust experiments
Orbital
Lower Cost Launch cost less: 300x less than Soyuz
Instrumentation and equipment less expensive
Orbital
Longer Duration Hours vs. few minutes:
More observations and experiment runs
Wider range of phenomena
Greater sensitivity
Suborbital
Altitude Higher ground resolution, longer lower level exposure,
good access to the upper stratosphere
Suborbital
Orbital
Lower G’s and
vibration
Gentler ride for instruments Suborbital
Orbital
Increased Range Ability to transect the atmosphere or cover more ground Suborbital
Lower Speed Better for many kinds of atmospheric and meteoritic
sampling
Suborbital
Orbital
No Zero-G Simpler design and operations, “ground-like”
environment
Suborbital
Orbital
Balloon
flights
hold
key
advantages
over
orbital
and
suborbital
flights
for
some
kinds
of
Research
and
Educa1on

14. ®
Field Institution Name
Technology
demonstration
Georgia Tech Dr. Robert Braun,
Former Chief Technologist
Sun and upper
atmosphere
National Center for Atmospheric
Research
Dr. Stan Solomon,
Senior Scientist
Solar physics Southwest Research Institute Dr. Craig DeForest,
Solar Physicist
Atmospheric physics George Mason University Dr. Michael Summers,
Planetary Scientist
Meteoritics NASA Ames Research Center Dr. Petrus Jenniskens,
Meteor Astronomer
Astrobiology Library of Congress Dr. David Grinspoon,
Curator of Astrobiology
Astronomy Planetary Sciences Institute Dr. Faith Vilas,
Senior Scientist
Astrophysics Louisiana State University Dr. Gregory Guzik
Advisory
Team
for
Research

15. ®
Product
Development
Milestones
2014
2015
2016
10%-­‐scale
prototype
flight
test
Full-­‐scale
unmanned
flight
tests
complete
Manned
flight
tests
complete
Tourism
flights
start
2017
Full-­‐scale
prototype
flight
test
Tycho
800
maiden
voyage
Tycho
8000
maiden
voyage

16. ®®
Our
First
Product
Is
Ready
for
Market
• Tycho
800
available
now
• Successful
first
flight
• First
customer
flight
in
2014
• Tycho
8000
in
early
2015

17. ®

18. ®
World
View:
Now
in
Flight
Test!
here
The capsule uses
existing
spaceflight
Similar parafoils
are flown
regularly by the
We have
successfully flown
balloons to

19. ®
Announcing: Our Research & Education Pathfinder Program
Ø To Gain Experience
Ø To Produce Early Results
Ø To Seed The Marketplace
Three payloads have been selected for 2014-2015 flights:
Ø Meteoritics Pathfinder, Dr. Peter Jenniskens/SETI
Ø RMAS Stratospheric Radiation Monitor, Dr. Kent Tobiska/SET
Ø Ozone Education Experiment, Dr. Jaydeep Muhkerjee/FSGC

20. ®
• Huge
web
interest
in
our
products
• Systems
requirements
review
complete
• Subscale
tes1ng
in
progress
• REM
pathfinder
program
beginning
We’re
Rising

21. ®®
Your
view
of
the
world
will
never
be
the
same
The
contents
of
this
presenta1on
are
confiden1al
and
must
not
be
duplicated
or
distributed
without
permission
from
World
View
Enterprises
Inc.
©
World
View
Enterprises
Inc.,
2014

22. ®
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION

23. ®
Stratollites:
Rapid,
affordable
deployment
• Rapid
deployment
in
hours
to
weeks
instead
of
years
for
rocket
launches
• Launch
loca1on
flexibility
instead
of
highly
controlled
and
expensive
rocket
ranges
• Payload
is
recovered
unlike
orbital
satellites
• Reduced
cost