Category Archives: Helium Balloons

See the World from 100,000 Feet

Source: Air & Space Magazine – airspacemag.com By Mark Betancourt Companies on both sides of the Atlantic are building capsules to carry you into the stratosphere.

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Super Pressure Balloon Marks First Continental Crossing

Source: NASA – nasa.gov Less than six days after launching from Wanaka, New Zealand, NASA’s massive Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) completed its first continental crossing April 1 flying over the southern tips of Chile and Argentina.

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Project Loon: Google’s Stratospheric Internet Balloons

Source: MIT Technology Review – technologyreview.com By Tom Simonite Billions of people could get online for the first time thanks to helium balloons that Google will soon send over many places cell towers don’t reach.

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Balloon Pilots Make History

Source: Yahoo! News – news.yahoo.com An audacious, nearly 7,000-mile-long trip across the Pacific Ocean came to an end Saturday as two accomplished pilots safely touched down in the water just off the coast of Mexico in their helium-filled balloon after … Continue reading

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Two Eagles Bests Duration Record

Source: Two Eagles website – pacificballoon.com At 7:29 this morning [January, 30 2015] MST (1429 UTC), the Two Eagles balloon passed the absolute world record for time aloft (duration) for gas balloons of 137 hours, 5 minutes, 50 seconds, set … Continue reading

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