The service has for years experimented with high-altitude balloons and ... medium or large balloon, or a fixed-wing, solar-powered platform flying between 60,000 and 100,000 feet.

One high-altitude balloon, for example ... Balloons are “an attritable platform” — disposable to a certain degree — but the Army would like to recover payloads that include more exquisite ...

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in high-altitude flight and atmospheric research.

High-altitude balloons ... threat balloons carrying bombs pose to national security. “Using a balloon as a WMD/WME platform could provide adversaries with a pallet of altitudes and payload ...

NASA Sent a Football-Stadium-Sized Super-Pressure Balloon Around the Globe for 16 Days - Here’s Why In the wide expanse of space exploration, most people imagine rockets in the sky. But not every ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — A homemade simulator, a high-altitude balloon and a new task organization ... using a commercially available video game platform. By modifying the game to include a custom ...

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 prepare to conduct a search for debris during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 7, 2023. One official ...

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 ...

The contract solicitation is ambivalent about the specific platform for Aether ... is a possible answer. The High-Altitude Balloon instead offers a lighter-than-air vehicle.

HAP-alpha is a collaborative project involving 16 DLR institutes and facilities, aiming to build and flight-test an uncrewed, solar-powered high-altitude platform as a technology demonstrator. The HAP ...

to test and qualify super-pressure balloon technology for future scientific use. Along for the ride was a science instrument called the High-altitude Interferometer WIND experiment (HIWIND), which ...