Near Space Labs' founders Ignasi Lluch, Rema Matevosyan and Albert Caubet are looking to map the world through low-cost, sustainable stratospheric balloons. Now as CEO of geospatial data startup Near Space Labs, her technology takes her close. While the billionaire space race has helped spur a wave of interest in companies looking to travel, manufacture and mine off-planet, Near Space is focused a little bit closer, in the stratosphere. Near Space launched its first major commercial rollout in July 2020, slowed a bit by the pandemic. (Despite interest from Europe and Southeast Asia, especially, Matevosyan says Near Space’s immediate focus is on the U.S.

Source: Forbes September 20, 2021 13:00 UTC