Raven Industries (NASDAQ:RAVN) monitored major active wildfires via stratospheric balloon over the past several months, successfully demonstrating the use of stratospheric balloon technology for wildfire management.
Last week, Raven joined the local aerospace community for Sioux Falls Airshow’s Discover Aviation Day, a day filled with fun and interactive activities for kids of all ages! As the premier sponsor of this event, Raven showcased our commitment to STEM and the future of aerospace.
The 2021 Discover Aviation Day will be Thursday, August 5, 2021, from 10am to 4pm at Maverick Air Center located at 4201 Maverick Place, Sioux Falls, SD 57104. This is an annual event put on by the Sioux Falls Airshow Committee, sponsored this year by Raven Industries.
The NASA TechRise Student Challenge, which will start accepting entries in August, will invite teams of sixth to 12th-grade students to submit ideas for climate or remote-sensing experiments to fly on a high-altitude balloon, as well as space exploration experiments to fly aboard a suborbital rocket. Raven Aerostar will help students bring their ideas of technology-driven experiments to the edge of space or beyond via a high-altitude balloon.
Through different programs, customers approach Raven to fly their equipment for many different reasons. This equipment, carried by the balloon, is called the “payload.” Raven Aerostar has a payload integrations team that works directly with customers to integrate their payloads onto the balloon for mission success. Click here to read how these payload integrations are made.
Raven Industries will make an appearance in an HBO documentary coming April 13. Based on the bestselling book 'Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America' by journalists James and Deborah Fallows, the visually stunning feature documentary spotlights ingenious local initiatives and explores how a sense of community and common language of change can help people and towns find a different path to the future.