KELVARX Programme
KELVARX / Atmospheric platform
StratoKite
A developing hybrid platform combining helium-assisted lift, a tail-sitter fixed-wing aircraft, radiosonde instrumentation, and intelligent imaging systems.
- Development status
- In development
- Programme
- KELVARX
- Platform class
- Balloon-assisted tail-sitter glider drone
- Primary role
- Atmospheric intelligence
Performance figures remain unpublished while the platform is in development.
A recoverable atmospheric platform built to observe, measure, and return.
A developing hybrid platform combining helium-assisted lift, a tail-sitter fixed-wing aircraft, radiosonde instrumentation, and intelligent imaging systems.
Engineered for the space between.
StratoKite combines a balloon-assisted ascent architecture with a fixed-wing VTOL airframe, creating a recoverable platform for atmospheric sensing, observation, and persistent missions.
Published technical profile
- Architecture
- Balloon-assisted tail-sitter glider drone
- Lift system
- Helium-assisted ascent
- Airframe
- Tail-sitter fixed-wing aircraft
- Navigation
- GPS tracking
- Processing
- AI edge processor
- Performance
- Pending platform validation
Payload
- High-resolution EO camera
- Thermal camera
- Radiosonde weather package
- GPS tracking
- Environmental sensors
- AI edge processor
Data collected
- Atmospheric pressure
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Wind speed and direction
- Live aerial imagery
- Thermal signatures
Designed around recoverable intelligence missions.
Planned missions
- Agricultural intelligence
- Border surveillance
- Environmental monitoring
- Pipeline inspection
- Disaster assessment
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