Scientists are proposing ways to explore Venus in the next decade and beyond by way of a host of advanced technologies, from ...

Balloons are primarily used for scientific research and offer high-altitude, low-cost platform alternatives. UAVs are gaining traction, especially in military and defense applications, due to ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

If you’re trying to do that, you might find some value in the Tiny4FSK project from the New England Weather Balloon Society. Tiny4FSK is intended to be a very small solution for high-altitude ...

4, 2024, from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Student Platform) mission remained in flight over 11 hours before it safely ...

Javion Siders/U.S. Army) The Army is scouring industry for unmanned aircraft systems to launch from medium- or high-altitude ... for even higher altitude platforms like balloons or long-endurance ...

NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students soared into the stratosphere and captured our blue, round planet on cameras from an altitude of about 28 kilometers. Members of the astronomy ...

The Indian Air Force is outsourcing part of its reconnaissance and intelligence gathering requirements through the use of ...

The UMass Lowell High Altitude Balloon project (UML HAB) has created a reusable balloon payload for taking instruments to the edge of space! This system includes a hot wire cutdown mechanism, ...

Stratosphere-compatible high-altitude aircraft, also known as Uncrewed High-Altitude Platforms (HAPs), are attracting increasing interest in research and industry due to their wide range of potential ...

Browse a gallery of the U.S. Air Force's high-altitude balloon experiments and the researchers, scientists, and test pilots who made them possible.

High-altitude balloons are used to perform experiments in “near space” at 60,000-120,000 ft. (18000-36000m). However, conditions at such altitude are not particularly friendly and balloons ...