The thesis project presented hereby aims at the development and testing of a scaled gliding vehicle capable of soaring from the upper layers of the atmosphere down to ground. This work finds its origins within a Thales Alenia Space internal venture, called SpArks, accelerated by the Space Business Catalyst (SBC), the industrial accelerator launched by the company’s Innovation Cluster. Its goal is to create a totally new way of getting broad audience to know science, technology and expertise coming from the Space industry: a digital edutainment platform profiting from real Space assets with dedicated instrumentation, giving birth to the Playable Space Asset (PSAs) concept.