There are plenty of useful atmospheric / earth science stuff that can be done at these altitudes, but I’d imagine most of them can use high altitude balloons. I’m not sure what specific payloads can’t be done in a balloon but don’t need an orbital launch. But for instance if you wanted to do molecular spectroscopy of the ionosphere this would be perfect since balloons don’t get that high and orbital rockets go through it too quickly.
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