{"id":103716,"date":"2025-08-23T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103716\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:16:15","slug":"urban-sky-wins-stratfi-contract-for-stratospheric-balloon-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103716\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Sky wins STRATFI contract for stratospheric balloon technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Stratospheric ballooning company Urban Sky has won a contract from the U.S. Air Force to support development of technologies that enable small balloons to complement, or replace, satellites.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now and get<br \/>3 free articles every month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Get unlimited access to<br \/>SpaceNews.com now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:16px\">As low as $5 per week*<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Cancel anytime. Sales tax may apply. No refunds. (*Billed quarterly)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See all subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jeff-foust\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jeff_foust-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nHe earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor\u2019s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jeff-foust\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jeff Foust\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Stratospheric ballooning company Urban Sky has won a contract from the U.S. Air Force to support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[69132,69133,69134,79,722,193,69135],"class_list":{"0":"post-103716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-afwerx","9":"tag-air-force-research-laboratory","10":"tag-balloon","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sn","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-urban-sky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}