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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X-Calibur, a novel telescope that sees polarized X-rays rather than visible or infrared light, is next in line for launch at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, N.M., a tiny town best known as the site ...
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2016
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Southwest Research Institute will flight test a miniature solar observatory on a six-hour high-altitude balloon mission scheduled for the end of August. The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform (SSIPP) is a complete, high-precision ...
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2016
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