In 1783, hot air balloons became the first viable option for people to explore the world from the sky. In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open ...

Included in the patent, titled “A high-altitude balloon safety control and positioning recovery device and method,” was a short-burst messaging module called Iridium 9602, Newsweek reported.

Wildland firefighters could have a new tool in their arsenal as they battle increasingly extreme wildfires: high-altitude balloons. Aerostar, a South Dakota-based company, has flown nearly a dozen ...

In February 2023, four balloons, or high-altitude objects, were detected flying over North America. They were shot down by U.S. fighter jets over the waters off South Carolina, the northern coast ...

Even so, the arrival last month of a Chinese high-altitude balloon called for a measure of creativity, putting weapons to an unfamiliar test. On Jan. 28, a new and unexpected threat floated into U ...

A Chinese spy balloon that passed over the United States last year was packed with American technology that could have enabled it to spy on Americans.

Pentagon documents later leaked by a 21-year-old US National Guard airman revealed that a high-altitude balloon with surveillance capabilities could have used synthetic aperture radar, which uses ...

Early spring snow clung to the tree branches surrounding the Howe Hall parking lot as a dozen Iowa State University students began filling a high-altitude balloon with hydrogen just after dawn on ...

Last summer, Politico reported that the US was itself developing plans to deploy its own high-altitude balloons to, among other things, track the deployment of hypersonic missiles in China and Russia.

These modules will guide you through the skill-building activities of a balloon payload workshop. If you have any questions or run into problems as you build, email [email protected] In order to ...

If you’re trying to do that, you might find some value in the Tiny4FSK project from the New England Weather Balloon Society. Tiny4FSK is intended to be a very small solution for high-altitude ...