high altitude balloons

Super-TIGER, a heavy-lift balloon, collected so much data in its flight above Antarctica that it will take scientists two years to sort it all out.

It’s tough to get a new space telescope funded — there are all kinds of budget disputes and delays that … Continued

A weather balloon built and powered by amateur radio balloon enthusiasts made an epic three-day journey from California to the … Continued

Ballooning isn’t exactly rocket science, apparently. A NASA balloon launch in the Australian outback turned calamitous today as a gondola … Continued