LUBBOCK, Texas — Multiple volunteer fire departments responded to a “runaway research balloon” on Friday afternoon that was a possible danger to Bledsoe and Morton, according to the ...

Enter Bioballoon: a living high-altitude research balloon. Instead of using inorganic materials, the Stanford-Brown International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team designed microbes ...

With fewer balloons, forecasters say upper air data from research balloons, commercial aircraft & satellites will have to pick up the slack. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...

Otto and Vera Winzen. Credit: RavenAerostar Winzen Research Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota took on the task of developing and manufacturing this new balloon. German-American aeronautical engineer ...

With the possible exception of Ukrainian casualties in the war, I’ve never felt less informed by the news and my own government than on the Chinese balloon story. China says it is a research ...

The sensors and cameras onboard many high altitude balloons and satellites aren’t useful if the data they collect can’t be retrieved. Often times, custom antennas or beacons are added to help.

A scientific balloon from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research crashed in a Sangola town residential area, 400 km from its launch site, causing damage to vehicles but no injuries.

A tethered balloon, developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was successfully deployed on Wednesday to assist in the ...

The balloon will float at an altitude of around ... the near-space environment for long-duration science and technology research from the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes, including nighttime ...