Category Archives: Stratospheric Balloons

Google Continues to Make Progress on Project Loon

Read two articles regarding the progress that Google is making on Project Loon, a system of stratospheric helium balloons to provide Wi-Fi connectivity to remote areas. Source: The Independent – independent.co.uk Up, Up and Away on Google’s Wi-Fi Balloon

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NMSU helps NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program achieve rare feat

Source: Las Cruces Sun-News – lcsun-news.com By Tiffany Acosta For the first time in the 27-year launch history in Fort Sumner, N.M., New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility team launched three balloon experiments on three … Continue reading

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Spaceport America may get near-space balloon flights

Source: Albuquerque Journal – abqjournal.com By Kevin Robinson-Avila Paying passengers may soon fly to the edge of space in massive balloons launched from Spaceport America.

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First Images of a Comet from a Stratospheric Balloon

Source: The Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University – jhuapl.edu The images are the first ever taken of a comet from a stratospheric scientific balloon mission, and show that Siding Spring was undergoing an outburst event, during which … Continue reading

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Parachutist’s Record Fall: Over 25 Miles in 15 Minutes

Source: The New York Times – nytimes.com By John Markoff Alan Eustace Jumps From Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record

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