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bigveech

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    Comment #44261491

    Just to put it in perspective: it costs $300–500 to produce a single atmospheric profile with current balloon infrastructure. The U.S. launches ~180 a day—that’s at least $54K dail…

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    Comment #41297601

    Internally yes we use a data warehouse to store the raw observations. We go through a similar process to traditional NWP to produce forecasts except with a few AI steps in between.…

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    Comment #41297549

    Yes, however, like with traditional forecasts, we weigh our balloon observations much higher.

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    Comment #41296510

    I was in the same boat. I've been a software engineer for as long as I can remember and always wanted to do more than just build B2B SaaS. Max, the first engineer at Urban Sky, hit…

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    Comment #41296091

    Yes! It’s quite confusing to distinguish between launches at the office haha

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    Comment #41295322

    Here's a video of one of our recent recoveries: https://youtu.be/8DWYLG_95V0

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    Comment #41295134

    > There are massive avenues of scientific research which rely on a fully-assimilated and reconciled, corrected, consistent analysis of atmospheric conditions. That’s a good point! …