Kris Lachenmeier's Contact Details

Kris Lachenmeier's Company Details

Near Space Corporation

Tillamook, OR, US • 20 - 49 Employees
Aerospace/Defense

Near Space Corporation (NSC) is a dynamic aerospace company with over 25 years' experience providing successful high-altitude flight test services to our customers using our proven stratospheric balloon systems. With extensive experience in both zero pressure and superpressure high-altitude systems, NSC can fly a wide variety of payloads weighing from a few pounds to over 10 tons, to altitudes up to 130,000ft to meet demanding customer requirements. At these altitudes, above 99%+ of the Earth's atmosphere, testing of systems designed for space or re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere can be realistically tested and evaluated.Our customers include a wide variety of government and commercial customers such as NASA, NOAA, DOD, laboratories, universities and new commercial space companies. Our facility was specifically designed and purpose built to provide integrated Engineering, Production and Flight Operations support associated with high-altitude balloon flights. Another element of NSC's operations is the Tillamook UAS Test Range (TUTR), an FAA designated UAS Test Range with airspace authorizations to 130,000ft and access to wide variety of maritime, urban, and mountain terrain to support both UAS and payload evaluations.NSC specializes in tackling unique customer requirements to design and conduct stratospheric flight operations that get the customer the data they were looking for. Challenge us! Bring us your requirements and we will work together to conduct a successful high-altitude flight test, or a whole campaign, to get results. NSC is Where Your Ideas Take Flight!NSC has called Tillamook and the Pacific Northwest home for over 25 years. If you love the outdoors and adventure, think living in a small community which is very family friendly is important, and want to be part of the best kept secret on the Oregon Coast, then NSC might be the place for you!