World View Enterprises is a private American aerospace company focused on stratospheric exploration and flight. They design, manufacture, and operate stratospheric balloon flight technology, offering services like remote sensing, stratospheric observation, and, in the near future, space tourism. Their key products include "Stratollites" for remote sensing and a passenger capsule for flights to the stratosphere, with planned spaceports located near world landmarks. They also have contracts with NASA for flight testing.
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Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, two World View co-founders, announced the Space Perspective venture in June 2020 to offer passenger balloon flights.
World View announced on 2021-10-04 that it is developing a passenger capsule carried aloft by balloons to altitudes of about 30 km.
Pima County, Arizona built the facility that World View occupies and leases that facility to World View as part of a 2016 economic incentive package.
World View developed a high-altitude balloon platform called Stratollite intended to provide remote sensing and other services traditionally provided by spacecraft.
World View expected to start flying Stratollites in the racetrack in the summer and gradually build up to as many as 20 Stratollites at a time.
World View envisioned a series of Stratollites providing imagery with a resolution as sharp as 0.05 m.
World View performed the longest flight to date of its Stratollite stratospheric balloon on a test concluded 2019-06-03.
World View’s Stratollite completed a 16-day test flight that took off 2019-05-18 from World View’s headquarters in Tucson, Arizona and landed 2019-06-03 in Nevada.
World View is leasing its Tucson facility from Pima County under an agreement that requires the company to meet hiring targets.
The lease agreement for World View’s Tucson facility required the company’s average employee salary to be at least $50,000.
World View has raised nearly $50,000,000 to date, including a $26,500,000 Series C round in 2018.
World View missed a hiring target of 100 jobs at its Tucson facility as of the end of 2018 and had 87 employees earlier in the month.
Mark Kelly co-founded and serves as an advisor to World View Enterprises, a Tucson-based company developing stratospheric balloons for scientific research and other applications.
Taber MacCallum will retain his job at World View Enterprises while serving as chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
Three of the selected Flight Opportunities payloads will fly on high-altitude balloons operated by Near Space Corporation and World View Enterprises.