Solar aircraft that run their own missions.

60,000 feet. Weeks on station. You buy the coverage, not the aircraft.

60,000 ft

Operating altitude

Weeks

Time on station

Solar

No fuel, no refuel

Any payload

Observation or comms

The wrong race

The airframe is the cheap part.

Every stratospheric flight today is an expedition. A launch crew. A meteorologist. Pilots on shifts. For as long as the aircraft is up.

Aircraft on station above the cloud deck

Optimizing for the wrong thing

Everyone is chasing records. Nobody is chasing use.

The stack

stratOS

The operating layer, built into the airframe from the first aircraft. Not added once the wing works.

Energy

Plans days ahead against battery, sun and wind.

Structure

Rides out gusts through the climb and the descent.

Operations

Launches, recovers, and makes its own weather calls.

Interface

Swaps payloads without touching the aircraft.

The difference

Dispatched. Not piloted.

Two early markets

Same aircraft. Different payload.

Observation

Satellites pass over. We stay.

Connectivity

A link where there is no tower.

The model

We sell coverage days.

Coverage day

The unit we sell

We operate

Customers fly nothing

Aircraft per operator

The number that decides everything

ALT 35,000 FT — TROPOSPHERE

This is the layer that kills these aircraft. Not the stratosphere.

Ground level

Two engineers and a garage.

Svanik Garg

Aerospace — UC Berkeley

Aerostructures, sportscar innovation at Ferrari
Hardware engineering at Skydio

Topias

Mechanical — UC Berkeley

Power electronics and batteries at Chariot Defense
Energy systems for austere environments
Early-stage defense go-to-market