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OLNEY / CASEY, Ill. — Aerostratospheric, an Illinois nonprofit also known as Midwest Stratospheric Data Systems, is inviting researchers, forecasters, and classrooms to use its open atmospheric commons: Unified Open Global Weather (UOGW) and the public xDataHub desk.UOGW unifies surface observations, marine samples, upper-air profiles, space-weather context, analytics, and flight products in one versioned library under CC BY 4.0. Attribution is required. Commercial reuse is welcome. The Data Hub is the human starting point; machine-readable layers are available for software and classroom tools. A developer overview lives in the Help Desk knowledge base at https://midwestsds.com/contact/knowledgebase.php?article=93
Recent flown archive (awareness only; science missions are private operations framed for public awareness, not pad invites):
• September 12, 2026 — x1Albatross envelope check from Casey, Illinois: Flown, burst 59,000 ft / 18.0 km.
• September 19, 2026 — X2Griffon maiden from Casey: Flown, burst 90,356 ft; xFall2 reported the landing. Call sign KE9CFY. NOTAM STL 09/348.
Flights are planned under FAA Part 101. Ops geography and flights framing notes for classrooms and partners are summarized at https://midwestsds.com/contact/knowledgebase.php?article=94 and the live flights archive at https://www.midwestsds.com/flights.html
Aerostratospheric seeks collaboration and data partnership conversations with STEM educators, weather researchers, and open-data users. No in-kind product asks in this announcement.
Links:
• Site: https://www.aerostratospheric.com/ and https://www.midwestsds.com/
• Data Hub: https://www.midwestsds.com/msds-data-hub.html
• Flights archive: https://www.midwestsds.com/flights.html
• UOGW / xDataHub KB: https://midwestsds.com/contact/knowledgebase.php?article=93
Disclosure: This release is posted by Aerostratospheric / Midwest Stratospheric Data Systems. We design and fly the platforms and publish the open data described above.
Media contact: Adam Wilson, Launch Control · launchcontrol@midwestsds.com · 603-600-2376
Corporate office: 801 S West St, Suite 101, Olney, IL 62450