World View slide of remote sensing market
A slide from World View's investor presentation showed its emphasis on the remote sensing market, saying its balloons can outperform satellites and aerial platforms in resolution and persistence. Credit: World View

World View, the stratospheric ballooning company that announced plans to go public last month, is emphasizing remote sensing, and not tourism, as its primary market for the next several years.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...