Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

You can make performance and range.

But it's such a research bet that it doesn't make sense on a time frame.

Yes, lots of balloons.

Yeah, so Stratus, and we have two different versions of Stratus.

This is the tactical version, which is the short-range version.

Basically, Stratus goes up to about 60,000 feet and gets in a certain wind layer to go a certain direction.

So Stratus tactical is kind of one-way.

Stratus strategic, which we're still working on, is two-way and can actually loiter in place.

So Stratus... Tactical...

One way.

You can control the way.

Wind's cross-action altitude.

So you may have a wind going this way and a wind going this way.

And if you can change your altitude, you can actually draw a line in those winds.

So Stratus Tactical is designed to be as cheap as possible and make tens of millions of them to go in that way.

Now, you can go that way for thousands of miles if you want to.

So what's it carrying?

So it really depends.

You can carry a lot.

And so this isn't one of those examples I've talked about where like you give a mission set and then you optimize the engineering and you get a platform that looks like wildly different than one would expect.

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