Over the last several weeks, KHON2 received numerous calls and e-mails about a balloon flying high over Oahu and Molokai.

However, conditions at such altitude are not particularly friendly and balloons have to compete with ultraviolet radiation, bad weather ... a living high-altitude research balloon.

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 project will launch aboard a high-altitude weather balloon during the summer, with the device and collected data returned to the students for analysis. This opportunity provides the students ...

The US Army is developing high-altitude spy balloons designed to track enemy stealth fighters beyond the reach of traditional ...

The first super pressure balloon flight of NASA's New Zealand Balloon Campaign reached its float altitude after lifting off ...

In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open baskets to polyethylene balloons and metal pressurized gondolas that allow for high-altitude atmospheric ...

The 27-foot-long carbon-fiber frame, stocked with cameras, tracking devices, and parachutes, is lifted by a high-altitude balloon on each ... be torn apart by the weather systems in the lower ...

UNF students chose Perry as the site for a high-altitude weather balloon launch Saturday because the prevailing winds would bring the helium-filled balloon on a track back towards their campus in ...

jtoole@eagletribune.com Jun 19, 2013 Jun 19, 2013 JagSat, Windham High School’s high altitude weather balloon, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean a couple of hours after launch last week.