Vikram went to the equipment to check the specs on them.
'Just as I thought ! ' he exclaimed in his mind.
The transceivers are state of the art, needed for WAN, and can handle anything from 2G to 5G in a hundred kilometer area. On top of that, all of them come with their own solar sails, electricity generating mechanisms, etc.
' This is to kill me and destroy the body if I had not kept some of my abilities secret. ', he thought.
The entire experiment sounds very good on paper, but it is said ; man plans, god laughs.
The military payload is put on him on the optimistic side, at half the capacity the balloon could carry. However, like all details in a mission, it wasn't determined arbitrarily. While the balloon is capable of carrying more payload, they just don't have enough battery power to put that payload into orbit.