Twice a day, every day, a white, 5-foot-diameter helium balloon will soar from a University of Arizona campus rooftop, dangling a miniaturized weather station that could improve weather forecasts and ...
NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December. Four balloons were launched from a site near McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice ...
NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has reached new heights, both literally and figuratively, with four successful long-duration balloon flights over Antarctica, as reported by NASA. From detecting ...
A U.S./Japanese testbed for a possible space telescope has returned the first high-energy "hard" X-ray image of a body in space from a balloon flight to 128,000 ft. Normally such X-rays scatter off an ...
The Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST) is pleased to share a recent NASA Press Release about annual upcoming balloon launches. Our PICTURE instrument is set for launch in Sept-Oct ...