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

New York-based Near Space Labs has launched a new fleet of balloon-borne zero-emission robots to keep a supersharp eye on ...

France warned that the battle for near-space is heating up and pointed to China's spy balloon over the US. Its defense minister said it must figure out up to what altitude its weapons can still work.

Arctic Edge 2025 includes military activity along the Bering Strait coast, near America’s maritime border with Russia.

World View, the near-space balloon company that will operate from a county-owned spaceport near Tucson International Airport, will participate in two recently announced NASA-funded space experiments.

This #5 balloon mission launched fruit block candies to near space to see if they could survive extreme conditions. The experiment reveals surprising changes in texture and appearance, and the ...

Near Space Labs is building aircraft, called Swift, that are raised by helium balloons and then rely on air currents to stay up, move around to take pictures from the stratosphere, and eventually ...

A “space balloon” for tourists is set for a test flight in Saudi Arabia this September. Spanish startup Halo Space built the balloon for zero-emission trips into the stratosphere. Each ticket ...

Ben Oliver's Most Recent Stories Halo Space, the Spanish startup which is joining the burgeoning near-space balloon flight sector, has revealed its Aurora capsule. The company said eight ...

Local Space Perspective prepares for tourist balloon rides to edge of space By Melonie Holt, WFTV.com September 20, 2024 at 4:11 pm EDT ...