WindBorne Systems works to close the in-atmosphere weather observation gap by scaling WindBorne Atlas, a comprehensive global sensing network that will provide two or more daily soundings every hundred kilometers over the entire planet, including oceans and the poles, at a fraction of current material costs and usage. At its current scale, WindBorne Atlas comprises 100+ concurrently aloft Global Sounding Balloons – long-endurance rawinsondes capable of collecting 20-40 vertical atmospheric soundings during weeks-long flights.

WindBorne has developed GSB-carried and deployed dropsondes, capable of collecting data from balloon ceiling (up to 24 km) down to the surface. GSBs can carry up to 10 dropsondes and deploy them into storms thousands of kilometers away from their launch site, keeping personnel and equipment safely out of the way of the storm's path.

During last year's Atlantic hurricane season, WindBorne launched several GSBs from a launch site 1000 km away from the developing Hurricane Milton. The balloons tracked and navigated over the storm before deploying dropsondes from 14 km above Milton's cloud ceiling. WindBorne received live hurricane data from these GSB-deployed dropsondes, which were relayed through the host balloons and then back to headquarters.

Dropsondes are being deployed operationally to capture data from Atlantic hurricanes by the end of summer and globally by the end of the year.