Helping you make more informed decisions without tradeoffs.
High-Resolution
Track changes and see details around high-valued assets and spot trends with 10 cm imagery.
High-Frequency
Gain the most reliable and updated data available with quarterly refresh rates.
Wide-Scale Captures
We cover up to 1000 sq km in a single flight, showing high-quality details at a city-wide scale of both urban and rural areas.
Zero-Emission Technology
Shrink your carbon footprint. Unlike aircraft and satellite solutions, our balloon-based approach is carbon-free.
Monitor critical assets frequently
Near Space Labs works for everyone. Use our imagery to track change, streamline workflows and improve data-driven decision making.
Government
Insurance
Conservation
Partners
Partnerships with other innovators are core to Near Space Labs’ mission. Join our growing ecosystem.
Press
Read about how Near Space Labs is defining new frontiers in geospatial imaging.
Stratospheric Imaging Robots Help Assess Property, Respond to Disasters
Stratospheric imaging robots, also known as Swiftys, are changing the way insurers can now assess insurance properties and assist in natural disaster response and recovery...
The Chinese Spy Balloon Incident: U.S. Carriers Have Access to Better Tech
Whatever the spy balloon’s data collection capabilities, its navigation was primitive compared to Near Space Labs’ balloon-based craft for gathering aerial imagery...
Better imagery helps insurers handle rapidly changing claims
Balloon expert explains the challenges of shooting down China’s suspected spy balloon
Space is the New Frontier, Rema Matevosyan, Podcast
Rema Matevosyan is a scientist turned entrepreneur who co-founded Near Space Labs. This podcast episode will highlight her unique entrepreneurial journey...
Near Space Labs Speeds Accurate Property Imaging from the Stratosphere
Why insurers are looking to near space imagery
This startup is sharing high-res images of Earth taken from high-altitude balloons
Near Space Labs offers free imagery for researchers
Near Space Labs announced plans Sept. 7 to provide free high-resolution Earth imagery to researchers, universities and nonprofit organizations....
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Albert Caubet, Chief Engineer, Near Space Labs
The world is constantly changing, and my co-founders and I at Near Space Labs understand that one of the most important ways we gather information about our planet...
Exclusive: Near Space Labs debuts ultra-high resolution Earth images
Near Space Labs, a Brooklyn-based Earth observing company, is making images of the U.S. available at the ultra-high, 10-centimeter resolution...
Near Space Labs to offer 10-centimeter resolution imagery
Near Space Labs is upgrading instruments mounted on its Swifty high-altitude balloons to capture imagery of Arizona, California and Texas ...
Near Space Labs brings new 10 cm imagery at lowest cost
Near Space Labs has announced the availability of Earth imagery at 10 cm per pixel resolution...
Startup Near Space Labs Raises $13 Million To Launch More Mapping Balloons Into The Stratosphere
While the billionaire space race has helped spur a wave of interest in companies looking to travel...
Near Space Labs closes $13M Series A to send more Earth-imaging robots to the stratosphere
The decreasing cost of launch and a slew of other tech innovations have brought about a renaissance...
Autonomous wind-powered balloons could be a cheaper alternative to satellite imaging
Near Space Labs just raised $13 million for its balloons called “Swiftys” to take high-res photos of earth...
Capturing Images with Stratospheric Robots: Our Investment in Near Space Labs
The world is changing. Where we live, how we move, the energy we consume, and the infrastructure we use...
Toyota Ventures jumps into space race
Toyota Ventures, the venture-capital arm of its namesake automaker, has invested in two space-oriented startups, Xona Space Systems and Near Space Labs...
3 companies from Urban-X’s 3rd cohort
What the cities of the future will look like was revealed last Thursday at Urban-X’s startup demo night for its third cohort of companies ...
Near Space Labs provides unmatched high-resolution imaging using stratospheric satellites
Imaging is one of the key markets in the emerging space tech industry...
Space weather bill advances but still faces hurdles
Why artificial intelligence will play a critical role in space warfighting ...
Near Space Labs releases high-resolution imagery API
Near Space Labs, a New York startup, unveiled an application programming interface ...
Startup Tuneup “Solving Cities”
6 co’s pitch to Jason innovating in autonomous tech sensors, city maps from space ...
Five New York Companies Helping New York
There are a lot of ways tech companies can (and have!) contributed to the city’s fabric ...
Giant Surveillance Balloons Are Lurking at the Edge of Space
Companies are sending massive, high-altitude balloons to the stratosphere ...
Why the Time Is Now to Re-imagine City Life
Cities play a central role in innovation and creation of economic opportunity. And since the early days of human civilization, cities have depended on technology to improve...
