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SpaceLoon proposes to design, prototype, and test a consistent, reliable, and bi-directional Controlled Altitude Ballooning (CAB) system for monitoring climate constituents, such as energetic particles (solar and cosmic) and thermodynamic variables, across various atmospheric layers. The absence of linkage between space weather events and atmospheric physics, chemistry, and dynamics, creates voids in understanding climate variability. To harness measurements directly connecting space weather phenomena with atmospheric response and dynamics across multiple atmospheric layers, better balloon platforms are required. SpaceLoon’s CAB, a patent-pending technology, is a combination of hardware and software that provides controlled altitude balloon flight for environmental data collection by varying the balloon size without bursting and facilitates access to the desired altitudes throughout the atmosphere from ground to the Mesosphere. Controlled balloon size variation within the bursts limit enables the CAB to conduct multiple profile sequences in one single flight.