Project Loon, developed by the company's "top secret" Google [x] lab, looks to solve that problem. The balloons will rise about 12 and a half miles into the earth's stratosphere--higher than most ...

On this day in 2015, a Watford teenager made headlines after successfully launching a self-made weather balloon into space, ...

France is leaning hard into near space, warning the area is increasingly contested, as evidenced by the Chinese spy ballon ...

A team of Mechanical Engineering students operating a high-altitude balloon outfitted with cameras helped livestream the recent annular eclipse as part of NASA’s Nationwide Eclipse Balloon Project ...

San Diego Jewish Academy recently announced the successful launch of a high-altitude weather balloon by its physics students, which traveled roughly 60 miles northeast, was in the air for two ...

Project Loon is perhaps the most famous of these (although now defunct), but it’s also possible to skip the middleman and build your own high-altitude balloon capable of connection speeds of 500 ...

A hobbyist club in Illinois said its high-altitude balloon that's missing might have been shot down by fighter jets last weekend. While the club continues to look for answers, a San Jose-based ...

The super pressure balloon carrying SuperBIT can maintain an altitude of 108,000 feet (higher than 99.2 percent of Earth’s atmosphere) while carrying the 3,500-pound payload of scientific ...

And that is it. Loosely speaking, everything is either a balloon or an aircraft. The most likely explanation here appears to be that the ‘objects’ are balloons but, for whatever reason, have ...

A balloon launched by members of the University of Maine High Altitude Ballooning Program over Orono. (Courtesy of the University of Maine via Maine Public) This article is more than 1 year old.

Bill would require tracking systems on high-altitude balloons BY Ryan Chatelain Washington, D.C. PUBLISHED 3:26 PM ET Mar. 15, 2023 ...

According to FlightRadar24, a real-time flight tracker that shows air traffic, it’s a high-altitude balloon that launched from Sante Fe, New Mexico.