Stratospheric infrastructure built for institutional research.
Up To The Edge was engineered from the outset as an institutional-grade stratospheric platform—not a consumer service adapted for academic use. Every operational system reflects the compliance standards engineering departments require.
Brittany Zimmerman
Brittany Zimmerman is the CEO of Yummet and founder of Up To The Edge, a company focused on providing stratospheric access through high-altitude ballooning systems for academic and research applications. She has extensive hands-on experience in near-space flight operations, having previously led high-altitude ballooning efforts for the NASA ND Space Grant Consortium Ballooning Club, where she supported end-to-end mission development, payload integration, and flight execution for student aerospace systems.
Zimmerman was selected early in her career as the youngest NASA Principal Investigator, where she invented, developed, and commercialized flight-qualified technologies deployed in flight, including the International Space Station and the Artemis program.
Her current work at Up To The Edge focuses on reproducible, low-cost stratospheric platforms for sensor validation, atmospheric testing, and student-led aerospace experimentation.
Near-space access without the infrastructure cost.
Universities gain full stratospheric mission capability—telemetry systems, payload integration, FAA-compliant launch operations, and data recovery—without building or staffing a launch program.
Our modular payload architecture and faculty collaboration framework mean institutions engage as research partners, not equipment operators. The mission systems are ours; the science is yours.
Ready to integrate near-space into your program?
Submit an institutional inquiry and our faculty collaboration team will respond within one business day with a program assessment tailored to your department's research objectives.