The ISTAR Group

The ISTAR Group is a privately held company with offices in Bend, OR and Colorado Springs, CO. The company has over 22 years of remote field stratospheric balloon launch and recovery experience, including campaigns in globally diverse locations such as Antarctica, Sweden, Norway, Canada, USA and Russia. The ISTAR Group team has a collective experience of over 50 years in Aerospace, Engineering, Project Management and Stratospheric Technologies. The ISTAR Group specializes in dynamic large volume (up to 1,000,000 m3) high altitude balloon launches. The ISTAR team has the experience and know-how required to perform complete flight system design and launch site development, including flight operations and recovery methods. Additional expertise includes developing research stations / payload, power systems, telemetry systems, setting up ground-based experiments, performing stratospheric balloon operations, and Long Duration Balloon development in the remote Polar Regions.