Our Value Proposition
Our Stratollites enable unique perspectives for commercial and government customers to perceive, interpret, and act on critical sensor data to gain deeper strategic insights.
Our imagery and analytics products are superior to satellite imagery in spatial and temporal resolution, and our category-leading analytics and interpretation methods further enhance knowledge and understanding for a broad range of applications.
Our History
At World View, we strive to be a responsible technology leader in the collection, analysis, and delivery of actionable information gathered by our strategically placed arrays of persistent sensors in the stratosphere.
50,000 kg
Payloads lifted into the stratosphere
142,010 ft
Highest altitude achieved
25,000 ft
Largest altitude control descent maneuver
85,000 ft
Highest altitude controlled flight (12 hours)
As we successfully deployed mission after mission, it became clear that high quality visual and sensor data from the stratosphere could be transformative to businesses that relied on antiquated satellite data that suffers from inconsistency due to cloud cover and poorer resolution.
From this effort, World View customers portals were born, and we began launching Stratollites to fulfill lighthouse customer data needs in government, infrastructure, and more.
Now, with our pending Stratollite 2.0 product release, we’ll be adding more and more launches, flight paths, and data archives to our state-of-the-art online customer experience.
We know that neither the Stratollite nor the data it captures is the end of our product experience. In addition to significant experience meeting and integrating with government specifications for data ingest and application, we’ve also built a state-of-the-art commercial customer portal complete with permissions, notations, data ingest, comparison, and export.
Leadership Team
Ryan Hartman
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Prior to joining World View, Ryan served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Insitu, a pioneer in the design, development and manufacturing of unmanned aircraft systems for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in military and commercial applications. Ryan brings over 20 years of experience in unmanned flight systems and aerial remote sensing to World View. In addition to his tenure at Insitu, Ryan previously led Raytheon’s Unmanned Systems Directorate of the Advanced Programs Division. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, and a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Dr. Alan Stern
CHIEF EXPLORATION OFFICER
Dr. Alan Stern is planetary scientist, former head of all NASA science missions, author, speaker, and a co-founder of World View. He has been on 29 NASA and ESA space mission teams, 14 of which he played a principal investigator (PI) role, including the nearly $1B New Horizons that was the first mission to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt; New Horizons conducted farthest exploration of worlds in history. Dr. Stern is a member of the US National Science Board, the former board chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation industry association, and has published over 330 peer reviewed scientific papers and four books. Dr. Stern is an instrument rated commercial pilot and flight instructor, and has conducted scientific research at both the south pole and on the arctic circle, as well as aboard various high performance aircraft including F/A-18 Hornets, F-104 Starfighters, Zero-G KC-135s, and WB-57 Canberras. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), and The Explorer’s Club. In both 2007 and 2016 he was named to the Time 100. He and his wife, Carole, have two adult daughters and a son.
Dr. Matteo Genna
CTO
Matteo most recently served as Chief Technology Officer of Space Systems Loral (SSL), a leading provider of commercial satellites, and brings decades of experience, leadership, and vision in space systems and engineering to World View. Matteo served SSL for over 20 years in various roles including Manager of the Advanced Systems Group and Systems Engineer. Matteo holds a bachelor of science degree in physics from the University of California, San Diego, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dexon Guzman
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Prior to joining World View, Dexon held Senior Business Development Executive positions in the Aerospace Industry at Insitu, Telephonics, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin where he was responsible for domestic and international business development efforts for a diverse number of products, such as, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Airborne Radars, Airborne Mine Countermeasures, Air Defense and Air Traffic Control Radars and C2 Systems and F-16 Aircraft. Dexon is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel with 2500+ hours as a Master Navigator/Bombardier in B-52 Bombers and holds a Master of Science in Systems Management from USC and a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College.
Elizabeth Kryst
VP OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Prior to World View, Elizabeth held leadership roles ranging in Product Introduction, Program Management, and Strategic Planning in advanced material science and environmental services.
Sebastian Padilla
CHIEF ENGINEER
Sebastian led the StratEx team as Program Manager and Flight Director. He headed a diverse core team of innovative engineers in the development, testing and operations of the entire StratEx System from inception to the record-breaking launch. Utilizing multi-disciplinary engineering, Sebastian led the StratEx team in devising a revolutionary launch system that took manned balloon flight to unprecedented heights. At the heart of this enterprise was their novel approach of simply outfitting the StratEx Pilot in a state-of-the-art pressure suit and strapping him to a high-altitude helium balloon.
Ashley Smith
DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE
Ashley joined World View in 2018 to lead the People Operations team. Over the last 10 years, Ashley has worked with global mining and engineering firms specializing in recruitment and employment law. She developed and led full-cycle recruiting teams, strategic Human Resources initiatives, developed performance management systems, as well as workforce planning and development. Ashley graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Economics and Industry and received her PHR from HRCI.
Charlie Suarez
HEAD OF FINANCE
Prior to World View, Charlie worked in public accounting with companies such as Arthur Andersen and RSM McGladrey and private such as ASARCO copper mining.
Stratollite 2.0
Our next generation offering provides longer persistent loitering times, enhanced payload capabilities, and an ultra-powerful, high band-width downlink.
World View Voyager
World View is in the process of effecting a transition of our business from a purely flight services model to providing data and information services from our unique, lighter than air, stratospheric platforms.
This transition ensures that we achieve our vision of leading the emerging stratospheric economy through the provision of imagery and data analytics services that provide new knowledge and enable better decision making. Our full, flight services portfolio, including the very unique experience we call Voyager, will continue to be a part of the future planning within World View while we focus our near-term attention on our unmanned, stratospheric data and information services. This new vision for World View is best expressed in our “Why” statement, which defines the purpose and focus of our organization.
World View inspires, creates and explores new perspectives for a radically improved future.