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With more than 60 years of lighter-than-air innovation and expertise, we're dedicated to solving great challenges in Aerospace and Defense.

Solving Aerospace & Defense Challenges

Team of Experts

Meet some Aerostar team members that help solve great challenges.

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Thunderhead Balloon Systems

Raven Aerostar's Thunderhead Balloon Systems have made long duration and navigational stratospheric missions a proven reality.

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Engineering Services

We've partnered with government agencies, academic institutions, and technology companies to achieve success in a variety of engineering services and mission operations.

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Radar Systems

Our advanced radar systems are designed and optimized to track targets in difficult radar clutter conditions across land, sea, and air.

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Situational Awareness & ISR

For decades, Raven Aerostar has led the market in advanced signal processing and persistent surveillance. Our suite of technology has enabled end-users and decision-makers to achieve and exceed dynamic intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions spanning land, sea, and air.

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There's a Gap In Your Strategic Operations

Our lighter-than-air platforms have helped NASA, Google, the U.S. Air Force, and many others achieve and exceed dynamic missions, including communications, data relay, surveillance, intelligence, and more.

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Raven Aerostar and Persistent Systems network constellation of stratospheric balloons in comms demo

Persistent Systems, LLC (“Persistent”), a leader in mobile ad hoc networking solutions, together with lighter-than-air platform provider Raven Aerostar (a division of Raven Industries, Inc.; NASDAQ: RAVN), today announced that the companies have successfully conducted a demonstration of how a stratospheric constellation of communications and sensor nodes could be established using Persistent’s Wave Relay® mobile ad hoc network (MANET) and used over a battlefield.