STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON MANUFACTURING
Zephalto Industry designs and manufactures stratospheric balloons for your operational missions: Earth observation, ISR, prototype testing, etc.
STRATOSPHERIC
BALLOON
MANUFACTURING
Zephalto Industry designs and manufactures stratospheric balloons for your operational missions: Earth observation, ISR, prototype testing, etc.
A UNIQUE EXPERTISE
Manufacture of reusable envelopes with high thermal and mechanical resistance. Each mission is studied for customised sizing according to payload mass and target altitude.
Our method:
- Materials : in-house expertise enabling specific developments
- Cutting : customised, automated cutting of spindles
- Assembly : mission requirements determine the assembly process and the addition of additional fibre reinforcements, if necessary
- Quality control
- Traceability : French design and thorough knowledge of the entire value chain
It is this rigorous design approach that enables us to achieve and demonstrate our performance with certainty. No compromises are made on safety; our protocols, inherited from the French Space Agency, validate each connection in the envelope.
CONDUCT A BALLOON
FEASIBILITY STUDY
Our team will respond as soon as possible to assist you with your request.
OPERATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY: THE CNES LEGACY
Zephalto benefits from exclusive technology transfer from the French space agency.
This agreement allows us to draw on sixty years of technical experience and lessons learned from more than 4,000 launches.
A CUSTOMISED
DESIGN
Zephalto engineering adapts to all types of missions.
We model the envelope as a direct physical response to your flight variables: target altitude, exact payload mass and objective. The types of film, their thickness and reinforcements are adjusted by our engineers to adapt the distribution of forces and anchor points, thereby guaranteeing the success of your operation.
- Maximum altitude : up to 35Km (110k feet)
- Gas : Helium/Hydrogen
- Temperature : -80°C (-112°F)
- Payload : up to 6000 kg (13k lbs)
- Security levels compatible with EASA CS31-GB
APPLICATIONS
Intelligence, Reconnaissance & Surveillance : respond instantly and effectively when needed.