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World View Successfully Executes NASA FOPMissionPress Release From: World View Enterprises, Inc. (http://www.WorldViewExperience.com) Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2018

World View, the stratospheric exploration company, announced today that it has successfullyexecuted a Z-Class high-altitude mission commissioned by the NASA Flight Opportunities programoffice (FOP) for two principal customers, the NASA Ames Research Center and SpaceEnvironment Technologies, both of whom are studying radiation detection and its energy levels atdifferent altitudes. The Z-Class mission launched from Spaceport Tucson at approximately 9:39 a.m. PT on Thursday,March 29, 2018. “These types of missions provide World View the opportunity to use our flight platform to supportimportant scientific research that will benefit humanity back here on Earth,” said Jane Poynter,World View founder and CEO. “We look forward to many more missions with NASA, SpaceEnvironment Technologies and others looking to perform research in a low-cost and unique spaceenvironment.” This Z-Class mission, commissioned by the NASA Flight Opportunities program office (FOP),carried two radiation detection experiments. The first, developed by scientists led by PrincipalInvestigator Dr. Meyya Meyyappan at the NASA Ames Research Center, is a chip-based radiationsensor intended to identify various radiations and their unique energy levels in space environments.This high-altitude mission provided the first opportunity to test this sensor and calibrate it againstknown instruments to develop an inexpensive, small footprint radiation nose system. The second payload, the Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS)system, was developed by a team led by Principal Investigator Dr. W. Kent Tobiska of SpaceEnvironment Technologies. The ARMAS system uses an innovative approach with airborne

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dosimeter sensors and ground-based servers to both enhance space science research, andimprove aviation safety. While in flight, data from a dosimeter is retrieved in real-time, either viaIridium satellite on research aircraft/balloons or Wi-Fi on commercial aircraft. The data is thendownlinked to the ground and used by NASA’s Nowcast of Atmospheric Ionizing Radiation forAviation Safety (NAIRAS) model of the global radiation environment. When ARMAS data is ingestedinto NAIRAS, an improved accuracy of radiation dose rates along with airborne flight tracks isaccomplished. The goal of ARMAS is to enable air traffic management to monitor global radiation“weather,” thus allowing commercial air traffic to avoid higher radiation areas. One ultimateobjective of this research is to reduce crew and passenger radiation exposure by flying in lowerradiation regions or spending less time in higher radiation locations. The source of the radiation,whether from galactic cosmic rays, solar flares, or the Van Allen radiation belts, is an example ofhow the dynamically changing space weather environment can affect the population as webecome more technologically advanced. “This World View stratospheric balloon flight of ARMAS truly opens the door to achieving a nextstep – how we reduce radiation exposure for commercial passengers’ stratospheric as well asspace flight within the next five years,” said Dr. W. Kent Tobiska, Principal Investigator for ARMAS.

World View offers two distinct stratospheric flight vehicles, Z-Class and the Stratollite. TheStratollite (not used for this mission) uses a unique configuration of balloons to offer breakthroughstratospheric navigation and persistence for long-duration missions. The Z-Class vehicle uses asingle zero-pressure high-altitude balloon for shorter duration missions not requiring navigation orpersistence. The Z-Class vehicle is a reliable and affordable workhorse option for high-altituderesearch missions like the one conducted today. Click this link for photos from the launch. Following vehicle and data recovery and processing,World View will update this link with additional in-flight imagery and footage: https://bit.ly/2pQE11z. About World View® Enterprises, Inc.World View’s innovative flight technologies offer a unique perspective of Earth from the edge ofspace. World View delivers meaningful insights to enterprises, agencies, and individuals via twoprimary business segments: Stratollite un-crewed flight systems and Voyager human spaceflightsystems. Stratollites, in operation today, offer low-cost, long-duration, persistent high-altitude flightfor enterprise and government agencies. Using advanced stratospheric balloon technology,Stratollite applications include communications, remote sensing, weather, and research. TheVoyager human spaceflight experience will leverage existing Stratollite development andoperations experience to one day offer private citizens a comfortable, safe, and perspective-changing voyage to the edge of space via high-altitude balloon. To learn more about World View,visit www.WorldView.space.

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