About Us
The Stratoship Group was founded in stages, beginning in April 2020, when a keen interest grew to more than a hobby. We worked as a contractor to RMIT University in their Firefly Pathfinder project. In this project, we reached the stratosphere in March 2021 with our first self-designed, self-built high-altitude balloon. The success in the Firefly Pathfinder project paved the way for us to receive financial support for a propulsive prototype as part of the HAPS Challenge. 2022 saw our core team expand and our research and development activities increase. We manufactured, tested, and launched a tennis court sized airship in our most complex operation to date. In 2023 we're consolidating our core team and focusing keenly on getting to our first paid commercial operations.
The path to providing stratospheric services is challenging, but as a group, we have already achieved a lot. In 2021 we launched our first self-designed, self-built balloon into the stratosphere. In 2022, we achieve our first fully functional stratospheric airship prototype launch.We achieved a height of 8,000 feet and gained all the required approvals to launch into controlled airspace. In 2023 we are looking to retire the last of our major technical risks by demonstrating controlled flight at stratospheric altitudes.