Best HAPS Alliance Podcasts (2024)

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The Race to Near Space

HAPS Alliance

4M ago16w ago

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The first man-made object was sent into space in 1957, kicking off a space race that changed our world. In the decades since, we’ve sent humans hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from our planet. We’ve kept satellites in orbit for dozens of years. We’ve even sent probes billions of kilometers into deep and interstellar space. But one region of near-space remains underutilized and under-explored, presenting our teeming world with a rare green field for innovation: the stratosphere. Meet ...

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Samer Halawi on the race to commercialize the stratosphere 34:23

4M ago34:23

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Over the last decade, global aerospace giant Airbus has been developing Zephyr -- a stratospheric flight vehicle with the wing span of a passenger plan but weighing less than the average adult. After years of successful flight tests, Airbus in 2023 spun out the Zephyr program into a new company called Aalto HAPS, with the goal of commercializing th…

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Flying stratospheric balloons with Aerostar's Russ Van Der Werff 33:03

5M ago33:03

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Russ Van Der Werff is a self-described stratospheric evangelist -- it's even in his business title. He serves as Vice President and Chief Balloon Evangelist at Aerostar -- a world leader in the design and manufacture of highly technical aerospace and defense solutions. For more than 65 years, Aerostar has been advancing the field of stratospheric b…

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Skydiving from 135,000 feet with Alan Eustace 34:42

9M ago34:42

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In October 2014, Alan Eustace donned a specially-designed space suit and strapped himself to a balloon filled with 35,000 cubic feet of helium. Over nearly two hours, he ascended to just over 135,000 feet above the ground. Then he cut himself loose. Listen to our conversation with Alan Eustace -- the world altitude record holder for skydiving and o…