Casey Latest News (Illinois, United States)

Aerostratospheric released a 100-gram latex balloon from the Casey, Illinois area at approximately 12:00 p.m. CDT on Saturday, September 12, 2026, carrying a simulated payload of the X1 Albatross

Aerostratospheric will conduct a private lift and procedural test of the x1Albatross platform on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from the Casey, Illinois operations area.

Failsafe fallback pack adds an independent recovery and logging layer so a flight is never a single-path data event.

Free Explorer Accounts Give Students and Educators Access to Atmospheric Science, Data Tools, and STEM Certificates

Midwest Stratospheric Data Systems (MSDS) has been awarded a 2026 Global Recognition Award in the research category for engineering ultra-lightweight, high-altitude payloads and delivering raw atmospheric data to researchers within forty-eight hours

New multi-layer open data commons integrates ground, marine, upper-air, stratospheric, satellite, and first-party near-space observations under a single public framework

The X2Griffon, about 1.01 pounds and formerly known as AmUP01, is MSDS's flagship platform for stratospheric vertical profiling.

X2Griffon Stratospheric Flights • Fixed Ground Weather Station • MAD-AP Long-Duration Drift Platform

Illinois team adds consistent Midwest atmospheric observations to global citizen science network

Rebranded high-altitude platform set to launch September 19 from Casey, Illinois, delivering open atmospheric data from near-space