"Everyone’s work at WindBorne Systems is crucial for establishing accurate forecasts as the data that our balloons collect is incorporated into the Global Forecast System,” explained Jehan Godrej, head of launch operations at the Palo Alto based startup. Operating, "the largest balloon constellation in the world” under the name of Atlas, they release "hundreds of autonomous, next-generation weather balloons each month” from their global launch sites, notes the company website.
Their long duration Global Sounding Balloons (GSBs) that circumnavigate the globe are not "simple weather tracking devices that we throw up into the sky. GSBs are highly sophisticated, in situ atmospheric......