Project Ikaros

Near-Space Balloon Missions

The Bay School of San Francisco

Bay students have successfully launched and recovered two near-space balloon payloads in the past year, both sailing into the stratosphere and returning atmostpheric data and video.

Ikaros I

Our first mission in May of 2010 proved that we could successfully launch and recover video and data from the upper atmosphere.

Ikaros II

We have just completed our second mission! We've posted video, images, and details about the flight on the Ikaros II mission page. You can also still see status updates from launch day on the livestream page.