world view - alan stern
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World View: Tourist, Research, Educa6on, And Commercial Stratospheric Ballooning
Alan Stern Chief Scien6st World View
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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.
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A Luxury Cabin for 6 Passengers and 2 Crew
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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
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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
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The World View Experience here
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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.
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Business Market: Stratollites
Stratospheric satellites: Carrying instruments around the globe, like near-‐earth satellites—but at a frac1on of the cost.
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Stratollites, Es1mated at a $5B Market
Communica6ons
Research & Educa6on
First Response
Surveillance
Weather
Remote Sensing
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• 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Our First Product Is Ready for Market
• Tycho 800 available now • Successful first flight • First customer flight in 2014
• Tycho 8000 in early 2015
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World View: Now in Flight Test! here
The capsule uses existing spaceflight technology
Similar parafoils are flown regularly by the military
We have successfully flown balloons to 100,000’
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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
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• Huge web interest in our products
• Systems requirements review complete
• Subscale tes1ng in progress
• REM pathfinder program beginning
We’re Rising
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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
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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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