Science and technology stories relating to humankind’s exploration of the weather are very interesting, and the immersive 2,000-square-foot “Weather Lab” that opened recently at the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum gives visitors an inspiring view of the inextricable relationship between weather and humanity.
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As cell phone and electrical companies scramble to repair the infrastructure, in Puerto Rico, in the wake of Hurricane Maria, some help in communication technology has come from huge jellyfish-like balloons, that ride stratospheric winds, 20 km above the Earth’s surface, and serve as floating cell phone towers.
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NASA, and its video platform Stream, will launch 100 balloons attached to cameras that will soar 100,000 feet above the Earth’s surface to provide
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A leak in a stadium-sized scientific balloon forced NASA flight controllers to bring it down in the South Pacific Ocean on May 6th. The super-pressure balloon (SPB) and its space observatory payload, worth several million dollars, have sunk to the bottom of the Pacific, about 321km south of Easter Island, with no chance of recovery.
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Ready for the thrill and challenge of a journey to the edge of space? All you need is $75,000 to reserve a seat and a mindset to float up to 100,000 feet under a balloon and enjoy the spectacular views. Among other magnificent panoramas, these vistas include the blackness of space, the starscape above, the curvature of the tiny blue Earth suspended in the universe, and sunrise in real-time!
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NASA launched its large zero-pressure balloon on November 28 with instruments and payload that will observe cosmic rays and chemicals and atoms that make up the interstellar space between stars. The balloon—as large as a football stadium and 40 million cubic feet in volume when fully inflated
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NASA is accepting applications now through Dec. 16 from graduate and undergraduate university students to fly experiments to the edge of space on a scientific balloon. Students and professors interested in applying are invited to participate in a Nov. 11 teleconference.
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Students launched an 11.8 million-cubic-foot scientific balloon (about the size of 58 blimps) carrying a total payload of one ton over New Mexico on September 1. The balloon carried 12 student experiments to the near-space environment and flew at an operational altitude of 120,000 feet on a mission that lasted several hours.
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A helium balloon, as big as a football field, was launched towards the stratosphere above Antarctica on 19th January 2016. It will ride the winds around the South Pole for at least two weeks while observing gamma rays from the sun.
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NASA will launch two football stadium size zero-pressure balloons in the Antarctic summer when anticyclones are common. The solar-powered instruments carried by the balloons will collect data on the extremely high-energy particles released by solar flares—information that will help scientists pinpoint the processes that set off these explosive events.
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