Flagship Brief

What would make the sky layer habitable, stable and useful?

The Stratomission innovation layer is not presented as already habitable. It is the operating problem: the layer where pressure, oxygen, thermal control, radiation, winds and ozone must be understood together.

Sky-Layer Science Biomedical Engineering

Resource architecture

Available resources.

Pressure envelope

Maintain workable pressure conditions for payloads, organisms, materials and future crewed systems.

Oxygen and CO2 balance

Understand breathing, regeneration, scrubbing and biological survival requirements.

Thermal survivability

Control extreme cold, direct solar load, radiative cooling and electronics heating.

Radiation and UV protection

Design shielding, exposure monitoring and acceptable mission-duration thresholds.

Winds and station keeping

Turn a drifting atmospheric region into an operationally useful band.

Materials and ozone chemistry

Study long-duration effects on envelopes, seals, electronics, membranes and protective structures.

Institutional value

The intellectual centre of the Stratomission program.

This brief explains why Stratomission organizes science, systems and institutions around a new operating layer.

EvidenceSource-controlled public proof

ClarityAccessible technical language

TrustUseful for partners and media

PlatformLinked to secure operations