AEROSTAT Strategy intelligence
69th Gordon Bennett 2026 Gladbeck · Germany
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Official tracker
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Race geometry

The northern corridor

Synchronised to live telemetry
ECMWF · loading
080+ km/h
Leader radius from launch Calculating… Team labels show deficit to leader
Compared Race field Leader radius Landed
Launch —
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Vertical decisions

Altitude & balloon speed

Altitude Selected balloon GPS speed Ground speed approximates the wind carrying a free balloon

Atmospheric opportunity

Wind ladder

Last 12 h

Fleet-observed GPS ground speed by altitude band. Longer bars indicate faster air sampled by the balloons.

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Best sampled layerCalculating…

Fleet comparison

Strategy matrix

Average flight level versus average GPS ground speed. Bubble size shows distance from launch.

Average flight level →
Faster air →

Time × altitude strategy

Layer opportunity curtain

SlowerFaster sampled air

GPS speeds sampled near the selected balloon, grouped by time and altitude. Team tracks show the layers they actually chose.

Multiple teams sampled Low-confidence sample Cells compare GPS ground speed within 450 km of the selected balloon—not a full atmospheric sounding.

Temporal analysis

Analysis window

From— Selected duration— To—

Team performance analytics

— flight performance

Calculating route and vertical strategy…

Altitude distribution Share of the selected window in each 500 m flight layer
Selected window
Race progress over time Change in straight-line distance from launch per hour
Calculating…
Selected team Fleet median
Hourly race progress chart.
GPS speed distribution Share of valid tracker samples in each speed range
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Selected team Race field
GPS speed distribution chart.