GPS Boomerang

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GPS Boomerang develops and manufactures unmanned aircraft primarily for the meteorological and atmospheric research markets. The aircrafts are light-weight mini-gliders, designed to carry a payload, such as a radio-sonde, and launched via a weather-balloon. Upon release from the balloon, the GPS based guidance system flies it back to the launch site or an alternative landing location.

The DataBird is the flagship of its range, enabling users to recover their weather-balloon instrumentation and data easily and reliably. Typical applications in which the employment of the Databird will achieve major benefits includes:

Returning custom-made equipment. Researchers can recover prototype sensors or circuits rather than face recurring investments in time and costs of calibration and/or replacement of such equipment.
Returning expensive equipment. The DataBird enables research organisations to launch expensive monitoring equipment with confidence of getting it back.
Collection of large volumes of data. Large amounts of data can now be collected with the DataBird without the need for live transmission.
Increased atmospheric sampling. The recovery of your instrumentation when carried by the DataBird allows more launches on the same budget.