Using off-the-shelf technology and innovative economics, lightweight helium balloons have started carrying remote-controlled laboratories to the edge of space and back, offering the business case for new types of science ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2017
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For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will crossthe entire nation on Monday, August 21, 2017. Over the course of 100 minutes, 14 states across the United States will experience over two minutes of darkness ...
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2017
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NASA on April 24 launched a football-stadium-sized, super-pressure balloon on a mission that aims to set a record for flight duration while carrying a telescope that scientists at the University of Chicago and around the ...
Space Exploration
Apr 26, 2017
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Experiments conducted high in the skies over New Mexico suggest that balloon-borne sensors could be useful in detecting the infrasound signals generated by small, extraterrestrial debris entering Earth's atmosphere, according ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2017
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After over 20 years of tests and development, NASA's Balloon Program team is on the cusp of expanding the envelope in high-altitude, heavylift ballooning with its super pressure balloon (SPB) technology. SMD technology investments ...
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2017
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For its next trick, an internet-beaming balloon factory spun out of Google believes it can outmaneuver the wind.
Internet
Feb 16, 2017
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Google's venture to beam the internet to remote areas of the world via balloon has hit a legal snag in Sri Lanka that could see the project abandoned on the island, a minister said Thursday.
Telecom
Feb 16, 2017
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Google parent company Alphabet confirmed that it is opting for balloons instead of drones in its quest to deliver internet service from the sky.
Internet
Jan 12, 2017
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A group of first year students at Roskilde University, supervised by Dr Tina Hecksher, have shown that water-filled balloons behave very similarly to tiny water droplets, by bouncing them on a bed of nails.
Condensed Matter
Dec 13, 2016
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Google, which is hoping to beam the internet to remote areas of the world via balloon, went before the UN's aviation agency to ask member states to let it ply their airspace.
Telecom
Sep 30, 2016
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