The Chinese spy balloon that crossed the United States carried American technology that could have enabled it to spy on Americans.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Google hopes to bring the internet to more people around the world through the use of high-altitude balloons, the internet services giant announced Saturday. Google says that two out of every ...

Unlike conventional drones, the Eagle APDS is the world’s first high-altitude balloon-launched drone that integrates high performance with advanced stealth characteristics. This innovative system can ...

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 ...