Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
Hey HN! We’re Max, Alex, and Austin, the team behind Sorcerer ( https://sorcerer.earth ). Sorcerer builds weather balloons that last for over six months, collecting 1000x more data per dollar and reaching previously inaccessible regions. In 1981, weather disasters caused $3.5 billion in damages in the United States. In 2023, that number was $94.9 billion ( https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series ). The National Weather Service spends billions annually on its network of weather balloons, satellites, and aircraft sensors – generating hundreds of terabytes of data every day. This data, called observation data, is fed into massive supercomputers running advanced physics to produce global weather forecasts. Despite this cost, there are still places in the US where we don't know what the temperature will be two days from now: https:/&#
Why it failed
Hey HN! We’re Max, Alex, and Austin, the team behind Sorcerer ( https://sorcerer.earth ). Sorcerer builds weather balloons that last for over six months, collecting 1000x more data per dollar and reaching previously inaccessible regions. In 1981, weather disasters cause
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- tndl
- Ended
- 2024
- Source
- hackernews