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Stratospheric Solutions and Services

See what no one else can

Canadian-built, navigable high-altitude balloon systems for wildfire monitoring, defence and research.

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High-altitude balloon systems

What we do

We're developing StratoHAB to carry cameras, sensors and communications equipment into the stratosphere.

Designed to help teams:

Follow changing wildfires and support disaster response
Watch Canada’s northern approaches, borders and coastlines
Study our environment and atmosphere

Wildfire and civilian applications Defence applications

Our platform

StratoHAB

Onboard navigation uses changing winds at different altitudes to guide the balloon toward the mission area.

Platform at a glance

Operating altitude: 15–25 km
Endurance: 24+ hours per flight
Line of sight: About 500 km from 20 km up
Payload capacity: 15–20 kg
Onboard: Thermal and optical cameras for day and night, autonomous edge-AI navigation, satellite communications

Learn more about StratoHAB

Flight record

Early traction, real flights

Five stratospheric flights, with payloads from three paying customers.

Flights to the stratosphere: 5
Paying customers: 3Western University, York University and DISC
Letters of intent: 4CAE, Canadian Coast Guard, SOPFEU and DRDC

Plan your mission

Two people holding the StratoHAB gondola with a customer payload integrated — An integrated payload, ready to fly.

Our Partners

Stratotegic in focus

Our mission. Our company.

Smoke rising across a forest affected by wildfire; illustrative application image

01 / The mission

Wildfire Fighting

We're developing a way to help crews track a changing fire and plan their response.

Watch the wildfire demoIllustrative wildfire imagery

Engineer filling the balloon on the launch tarp

02 / The company

About Stratotegic

Meet the people behind StratoHAB and hear how the company began.

Watch our storyStratotegic launch preparations

Inflated balloon at night with the team in silhouette

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