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Thinking Balloon

Autonomous tethered aerostats with a ground station that launches, recovers and services them, for port, industrial and test range monitoring, Bengaluru

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IISc-incubated Thinking Balloon flies its autonomous tethered aerostat for three days straight near Bengaluru

The aerostat launched, held position, docked and refilled its lifting gas without a crew doing it by hand, and the brothers behind the startup are now starting port and industrial pilots.

14 November 2026 · 2 min read