MILE HIGH SPIRITS ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

Objective of the flight was to expose to the stratosphere a barrel of whiskey as part of a publicitary stunt for Mile High Spirits a distillery from Denver, Colorado that in 2024 launched to the market a special brand of whiskey called "Fireside Strato Whiskey".

The barrel was mounted in the so called TYCHO STRATOCRAFT a specially built modular platform developed by World View capable of being customized for a wide variety of unique mission needs and payloads including its own subsystems for telemetry, payload control, power and thermal control. It is named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). As Brahe was the source of data used by others to make powerful discoveries, Tycho stratocraft is aimed to provide researchers with stratospheric access to make new discoveries.

There are three standard versions of the Tycho platforms for specific payload mass ranges: Tycho800, Tycho285 and Tycho20, where the number denotes the number of kilos that each of them can lift as payload. The systems that composed the TYCHO platform share heritage with those used by StratEx for the record setting manned balloon flights performed in October 2014.

Balloon launched on: 7/15/2021 at 14:00 utc
Launch site: Page Airport, Arizona, US  
Balloon launched by: World View Enterprises
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon  
Flight identification number: N105WV
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 7/15/2021 at 18:40 utc
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 4 h 40 m
Landing site: In Mohave County, Arizona, US

• Fireside Strato Whiskey Mile High Spirits website
• Information on the flight World View Space in Facebook