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

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 their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Urban Sky, a stratospheric platform company, today announced it has closed a $30M Series B investment round. The funding will be used to develop and commercialize a connected suite of products that ...

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 ...