News tagged with giant balloon

SPICE geoengineering project delayed due to critics issues

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month it was announced that a group of researchers had come together to start a geoengineering project called Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE). Its aim ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6 | with audio podcast weblog

British team set to field test gigantic balloon and water hose geo-engineering experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- In what to some might seem almost ludicrous, (think Dr. Stranglove,) a British team of geo-engineers are set to launch a giant balloon a half mile into the sky pulling with it a water hose ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (17) | comments 75 | with audio podcast weblog

Giant balloon flying high over Atlantic to catch cosmic rays

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4