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Build your own small-scale, high-altitude balloon out of styrofoam, masking tape, electrical kit and a 'consumer-grade' weather balloon. Two guys have reached an estimated 52000 feet using one they had built earlier. The UX-1 Balloon was launch on Saturday May 14, 2005, 10a...

When four-year old Alice Maines released her balloon at her school fete on a rainy day in Manchester, UK, never in her wildest dreams did she imagine that it would end up being found by Xie Yufei in a park in Guangzhou, a sprawling metropolis 75 miles north of Hong Kong. The balloon, that cost just one pou...

A hot air balloon managed to reach The North Pole for the first time in the history of Arctic exploration on Monday. The `Holy Russia` (Svyataya Rus) crew named their expedition "A Flight to the Summit of the Globe". It took the men 38 days to cover 980 km starting from Cape Arktichesk...

Today, at 03.10, local time, a giant balloon was launched from Esrange, the Aerospace Operation Facility of the Swedish Space Corporation. The balloon is carrying BLAST, a large sub-millimetre telescope for studies of star formation. [img]http://www.nsbf.nasa.gov/map/ball...

A balloon-borne telescope afloat in the stratosphere could offer a direct view of planets in other solar systems, says a team of researchers. If successful, the lofty scheme would deliver images of alien worlds impossible to see from the ground and all for a fraction of what it would cost to do the job...

The Alaska Space Grant Program and the Arctic Amateur Radio Club formed the Balloon Experiment And Research Programor B.E.A.R. for shortin December 2007. The program's aim was to launch a high altitude balloon equipped with two amateur radio signals and more from Poker Flat Research Range in the s...

A balloon packed with scientific gadgets that travelled from south central Kentucky to the edge of space was designed by a group of college students from around the state. The latex balloon was launched just after noon on Monday from a field at the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport. It re...

Title: The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Detector Design, Performance, and Sensitivity for 2006-2007 Balloon Flight Authors: ANITA collaboration: P. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), S. Barwick (2), J. Beatty (3), D. Besson (4), W. Binns (5), C. Chen (6), P. Chen (...

Title: The ARCADE 2 Instrument Authors: J. Singal, D.J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, S. Levin, M. Limon, P. Lubin, P. Mirel, M. Seiffert, T. Villela, E. Wollack, C.A. Wuensche The second generation Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission (ARCADE 2) instrument is a balloon-bo...

NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research. The super-pressure balloon ultimately will carry large scientific experiments to the brink...

A new NASA project will use more than 40 high altitude balloons to return new scientific insights about Earth's Van Allen Belts. The type of radiation in the belts can be hazardous to astronauts, orbiting satellites and aircraft flying in high altitude polar routes. NASA's Science Mission Directo...

Title: HX-POL - A Balloon-Borne Hard X-Ray Polarimeter Authors: H. Krawczynski (1), A. Garson III (1), Q. Li (1), M. Beilicke (1), P. Dowkontt (1), E. Wulf (2), J. Kurfess (2), E. Novikova (2), G. De Geronimo (3), M. G. Baring (4), A. K. Harding (5), J. Grindlay (6), J. S. Hong (6) ((1) Washington Univer...

From Mars to the Earth and back is the theme when the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and University of Bern in Switzerland build and launch a mass spectrometer on a stratospheric balloon from SSCs operational facility Esrange Space Centre in Kiruna. T...

Title: SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter Authors: B. P. Crill, P.A.R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli, S. Benton, R. Bihary, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, J. Brevik, S. Bryan, C. R. Contaldi, O. Dore, M. Farhang, L. Fissel, S. R. Golwala, M. Halpern, G. Hilton, W. Holmes, V. V. Hristov, K. Irwin, W....

A group of ****roaches recently took a ride on a high-altitude balloon launched into space by freshmen aerospace engineering students from the University of California, San Diego. The ****roaches were put in a variety of capsules to see how they would survive in different extreme environments, i...

Solar Telescope Reaches 120,000 Feet on Jumbo-Jet-Sized Balloon In a landmark test flight, the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a team of research partners this month successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet, borne by a balloon larger than a Boein...

The EBEX balloon was launched on the 11th June 2009. EBEX launch 11 Click to Play | View Details EBEX Launch, 6/11/09 Click to Play | View Details EBEX is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the intensity and polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Measurements of th...

BESS (the Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer) is a joint project of Japanese and US scientists to search for antimatter in the cosmic radiation, as well as measure energy and intensity of less exotic components of the cosmic radiation. The antimatter search is of great...

Experts select future REXUS/BEXUS experiments Following a workshop, held 3-5 February at the European Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, 10 student teams from ESA Member States and Co-operating States have been selected to fly their experiments on future soundin...

Arizonans see UFO, NASA says it's a balloon NASA officials say it wasn't an alien spacecraft people in Arizona and New Mexico spotted floating far above them in the clear blue sky, just a giant research balloon. Read more

A NASA test balloon coasting in stratospheric breezes around Antarctica broke the duration record for balloons today. It has surpassed a record set in 2005, when a balloon carried a cosmic-ray experiment aloft for almost 42 days. [url=http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090208/full/news.200...

The Romanian Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Association (ARCA) will launch in October from a Black Sea platform the country's first space rocket dubbed Helen, in what is the final rehearsal for a 30 million dollar astronautic contest for landing a privately built spacecraft on the moon, initiated...

NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon. The annual NASA project provides near space access for 12 undergraduate and graduate student experiments to be carried by a N...

mini balloon launch Click to Play | View Details

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up -- and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all. The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a coll...

Pegasus flight over 100000 ft photographs earth Click to Play | View Details Jonathan and Mihir launch Project Pegasus with a high altitude balloon into space to an altitude of 100,000 feet to capture spectacular pictures and photos of the earth.

Energetics and Mass (CREAM) experiment was designed and constructed to measure cosmic ray elemental spectra using a series of ultra long duration balloon (ULDB) flights. The goal is to extend direct measurement of cosmic-ray composition to the energies capable of generating gigantic air showe...

Amazing pictures of Earth captured by one man, a balloon and his compact camera He used GPS tracking technology similar to an in-car sat-nav to follow its progress - and an attached radio transmitter to find it when it parachutes back to earth. The photos taken by his device were so spectacular that Na...

Giant NASA balloon lands in outback Scientists are trying to recover a massive NASA balloon and several tonnes of equipment that drifted into outback Queensland over the weekend. The 300-metre balloon was launched recently from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to gather data about the uni...

Space balloon rips from mooring The launch of a giant space balloon went badly wrong Thursday in the Australian Outback when it and its heavy payload of scientific equipment broke from a mooring and dragged across the desert, overturning an SUV and narrowly missing bystanders. One witness said she...

What was that object in the sky Saturday evening?? Many residents of the South Plains reported seeing an unusual object in the northeastern skies Saturday evening between 7pm and 8pm. Many calls came in to the station around 7:15pm. It turns out that the object was a NASA scientific balloon launched...

Students from OSUs Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled balloon 12 inches in diameter, the detector flew for more than two hours and reached 104,000 feet in altitude...

Today, November 23, BEXUS 11 was successfully launched at 08:19 UTC. The BEXUS programme allows students from universities and higher education colleges across Europe to carry out scientific and technological experiments on research balloons. Each year, two balloons are launched, carrying u...

NASA-NSF Scientific Balloon Launches From Antarctica NASA and the National Science Foundation launched a scientific balloon on Monday, Dec. 20, to study the effects of cosmic rays on Earth. It was the first of five scientific balloons scheduled to launch from Antarctica in December. The Cosmic R...

High-altitude balloon launch is Bloomington's first Members of the Atmospheric Science Program at IU Bloomington have invited scientists from Taylor University to perform the first high-altitude balloon release in Bloomington history, its overseers believe. The launch is planned for Wedne...

A massive scientific balloon which was part of a research project for NASA has touched down in Longreach in central-west Queensland. The multi-million-dollar balloon was launched in Alice Springs on Tuesday as part of NASA's study of the Milky Way galaxy. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...

Senatobia-1 Balloon launch Mission Status: Go for Launch! Mission Control Centre: NASA (ARC) Launch Location: Near Gainsville, Florida Launch Coordinates: Announced at Launch Time Launch Time: 0730hrs (7:30am EST) Predicted Touchdown location: Flagler County Launch and Countdown Team Mem...

On 4 June 1783, the Montgolfier brothers flew their hot air balloon as their first public demonstration at Annonay in front of a group of dignitaries from the Etats particulars. Its flight covered 2 km, lasted 10 minutes, and had an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000 m. Word of their success quickly r...

The HIWIND balloon-borne experiment was successfully launched from Kiruna, Sweden at 23:11 GMT, 13th June, 2011. Relayed Real Time GPS Data High-altitude Interferometer WIND experiment (HIWIND) is a balloon-borne Fa...

Title: POET: POlarimeters for Energetic Transients Authors: J.E. Hill, M.L. McConnell, P. Bloser, J. Legere, J. Macri, J. Ryan, S. Barthelmy, L. Angelini, T. Sakamoto, J.K. Black, D.H. Hartmann, P. Kaaret, B. Zhang, K. Ioka, T. Nakamura, K. Toma, R. Yamazaki, X. Wu POET (Polarimeters for Energet...

Balloon launching world record broken A new world record has been set at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in America for the most balloons launched in one hour. Read more

Students' Balloon to Observe Draconid Meteor Shower Students from a remote area in Central California close to the Nevada border may get a rare to opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Draconid meteor shower Saturday. A helium balloon experiment by a group of high school and middle school students a...

UA team attempts to map Milky Way If they win NASA's $55 million grant, the UA Steward Observatory's GUSSTO mission will map the Milky Way galaxy through its telescope's 1-meter diameter mirror. About 1,000 feet of cable would connect the telescope to a balloon that can expand wider than a football f...

In 2002, Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone, nonstop, in any kind of aircraft. He launched the 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia, on June 19, 2002 and returned to Australia on July 3, 2002, subsequently landing in Queensland. Du...

Navy telescope photographs the sun On Sept. 25, 1957, the Office of Naval Research took images of spots on the face of the sun with Stratosphere, the first balloon-borne telescope. [url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/25/looking-back-navys-first-photos-suns-corona/]Read mo...

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Balloon UX-1 Balloon launch (Preview)	Mission News	0	1343	May 17 10:07 2005 by Blobrana
Build your own small-scale, high-altitude balloon out of styrofoam, masking tape, electrical kit and a 'consumer-grade' weather balloon. Two guys have reached an estimated 52000 feet using one they had built earlier. The UX-1 Balloon was launch on Saturday May 14, 2005, 10a...
Balloon The balloon (Preview)	General news	0	1226	Sep 27 19:40 2007 by Blobrana
When four-year old Alice Maines released her balloon at her school fete on a rainy day in Manchester, UK, never in her wildest dreams did she imagine that it would end up being found by Xie Yufei in a park in Guangzhou, a sprawling metropolis 75 miles north of Hong Kong. The balloon, that cost just one pou...
Arctic Balloon North Pole balloon (Preview)	General news	0	1312	May 26 10:13 2005 by Blobrana
A hot air balloon managed to reach The North Pole for the first time in the history of Arctic exploration on Monday. The `Holy Russia` (Svyataya Rus) crew named their expedition "A Flight to the Summit of the Globe". It took the men 38 days to cover 980 km starting from Cape Arktichesk...
Balloon BLAST balloon ( 1 2 3 4 ) (Preview)	Mission News	35	11222	Jun 11 19:03 2013 by Blobrana
Today, at 03.10, local time, a giant balloon was launched from Esrange, the Aerospace Operation Facility of the Swedish Space Corporation. The balloon is carrying BLAST, a large sub-millimetre telescope for studies of star formation. [img]http://www.nsbf.nasa.gov/map/ball...
Balloon Balloon-borne observatory (Preview)	Mission News	2	1807	Oct 12 11:02 2008 by Blobrana
A balloon-borne telescope afloat in the stratosphere could offer a direct view of planets in other solar systems, says a team of researchers. If successful, the lofty scheme would deliver images of alien worlds impossible to see from the ground and all for a fraction of what it would cost to do the job...
Balloon Balloon Experiment And Research Program (Preview)	Mission News	0	1408	Jun 4 17:24 2008 by Blobrana
The Alaska Space Grant Program and the Arctic Amateur Radio Club formed the Balloon Experiment And Research Programor B.E.A.R. for shortin December 2007. The program's aim was to launch a high altitude balloon equipped with two amateur radio signals and more from Poker Flat Research Range in the s...
Balloon Kentucky Space Balloon-1 (Preview)	Mission News	0	1279	Jul 21 09:33 2008 by Blobrana
A balloon packed with scientific gadgets that travelled from south central Kentucky to the edge of space was designed by a group of college students from around the state. The latex balloon was launched just after noon on Monday from a field at the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport. It re...
Balloon ANITA (Preview)	Astronomy News	0	1192	Dec 11 21:15 2008 by Blobrana
Title: The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Detector Design, Performance, and Sensitivity for 2006-2007 Balloon Flight Authors: ANITA collaboration: P. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), S. Barwick (2), J. Beatty (3), D. Besson (4), W. Binns (5), C. Chen (6), P. Chen (...
Balloon ARCADE 2 Instrument (Preview)	Mission News	1	1762	Jan 6 13:09 2009 by Blobrana
Title: The ARCADE 2 Instrument Authors: J. Singal, D.J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, S. Levin, M. Limon, P. Lubin, P. Mirel, M. Seiffert, T. Villela, E. Wollack, C.A. Wuensche The second generation Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission (ARCADE 2) instrument is a balloon-bo...
Balloon CREAM IV experiment (Preview)	Mission News	0	1245	Jan 9 00:38 2009 by Blobrana
NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research. The super-pressure balloon ultimately will carry large scientific experiments to the brink...
Balloon BARREL (Preview)	Mission News	5	2727	Apr 24 18:54 2014 by Blobrana
A new NASA project will use more than 40 high altitude balloons to return new scientific insights about Earth's Van Allen Belts. The type of radiation in the belts can be hazardous to astronauts, orbiting satellites and aircraft flying in high altitude polar routes. NASA's Science Mission Directo...
Balloon HX-POL (Preview)	General news	1	1364	Jun 7 01:32 2010 by Blobrana
Title: HX-POL - A Balloon-Borne Hard X-Ray Polarimeter Authors: H. Krawczynski (1), A. Garson III (1), Q. Li (1), M. Beilicke (1), P. Dowkontt (1), E. Wulf (2), J. Kurfess (2), E. Novikova (2), G. De Geronimo (3), M. G. Baring (4), A. K. Harding (5), J. Grindlay (6), J. S. Hong (6) ((1) Washington Univer...
Balloon Mars Environment Analogue Platform (Preview)	Mission News	2	1397	Jun 30 20:17 2008 by Blobrana
From Mars to the Earth and back is the theme when the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and University of Bern in Switzerland build and launch a mass spectrometer on a stratospheric balloon from SSCs operational facility Esrange Space Centre in Kiruna. T...
Balloon SPIDER (Preview)	Mission News	1	1797	Feb 4 10:01 2016 by Blobrana
Title: SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter Authors: B. P. Crill, P.A.R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli, S. Benton, R. Bihary, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, J. Brevik, S. Bryan, C. R. Contaldi, O. Dore, M. Farhang, L. Fissel, S. R. Golwala, M. Halpern, G. Hilton, W. Holmes, V. V. Hristov, K. Irwin, W....
Balloon UC San Diego balloon-satellite project (Preview)	Mission News	0	1400	Apr 4 13:53 2009 by Blobrana
A group of **roaches recently took a ride on a high-altitude balloon launched into space by freshmen aerospace engineering students from the University of California, San Diego. The **roaches were put in a variety of capsules to see how they would survive in different extreme environments, i...
Observatory Balloon Sunrise Solar Telescope (Preview)	Mission News	4	1810	Jun 9 13:39 2009 by Blobrana
Solar Telescope Reaches 120,000 Feet on Jumbo-Jet-Sized Balloon In a landmark test flight, the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a team of research partners this month successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet, borne by a balloon larger than a Boein...
Balloon EBEX balloon (Preview)	Mission News	3	2283	Mar 14 11:03 2017 by Blobrana
The EBEX balloon was launched on the 11th June 2009. EBEX launch 11 Click to Play \| View Details EBEX Launch, 6/11/09 Click to Play \| View Details EBEX is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the intensity and polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Measurements of th...
Balloon BESS (Preview)	Mission News	0	1125	Oct 5 18:21 2009 by Blobrana
BESS (the Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer) is a joint project of Japanese and US scientists to search for antimatter in the cosmic radiation, as well as measure energy and intensity of less exotic components of the cosmic radiation. The antimatter search is of great...
Balloon REXUS/BEXUS experiments (Preview)	Mission News	8	3902	Oct 9 07:49 2014 by Blobrana
Experts select future REXUS/BEXUS experiments Following a workshop, held 3-5 February at the European Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, 10 student teams from ESA Member States and Co-operating States have been selected to fly their experiments on future soundin...
Balloon NASA research balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	1115	May 19 19:35 2009 by Blobrana
Arizonans see UFO, NASA says it's a balloon NASA officials say it wasn't an alien spacecraft people in Arizona and New Mexico spotted floating far above them in the clear blue sky, just a giant research balloon. Read more
Balloon Super-pressure balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	1203	Feb 8 23:05 2009 by Blobrana
A NASA test balloon coasting in stratospheric breezes around Antarctica broke the duration record for balloons today. It has surpassed a record set in 2005, when a balloon carried a cosmic-ray experiment aloft for almost 42 days. [url=http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090208/full/news.200...
Lunar Balloon Rocket Helen (Preview)	Mission News	1	1504	Nov 5 22:32 2009 by Blobrana
The Romanian Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Association (ARCA) will launch in October from a Black Sea platform the country's first space rocket dubbed Helen, in what is the final rehearsal for a 30 million dollar astronautic contest for landing a privately built spacecraft on the moon, initiated...
Balloon High Altitude Student Platform (Preview)	Mission News	3	2130	Oct 19 16:14 2012 by Blobrana
NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon. The annual NASA project provides near space access for 12 undergraduate and graduate student experiments to be carried by a N...
Balloon Balloons (Preview)	Videos	3	1554	Jun 22 00:31 2011 by Blobrana
mini balloon launch Click to Play \| View Details
Balloon SUNRISE balloon (Preview)	Mission News	2	1606	Jan 9 11:23 2017 by Blobrana
The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up -- and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all. The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a coll...
Balloon Project Pegasus (Preview)	Videos	0	1250	Dec 2 09:45 2009 by Blobrana
Pegasus flight over 100000 ft photographs earth Click to Play \| View Details Jonathan and Mihir launch Project Pegasus with a high altitude balloon into space to an altitude of 100,000 feet to capture spectacular pictures and photos of the earth.
Balloon CREAM V experiment (Preview)	Mission News	0	1117	Dec 11 16:51 2009 by Blobrana
Energetics and Mass (CREAM) experiment was designed and constructed to measure cosmic ray elemental spectra using a series of ultra long duration balloon (ULDB) flights. The goal is to extend direct measurement of cosmic-ray composition to the energies capable of generating gigantic air showe...
Balloon High Altitude Balloon (Preview)	Mission News	1	1493	Mar 26 02:36 2010 by Blobrana
Amazing pictures of Earth captured by one man, a balloon and his compact camera He used GPS tracking technology similar to an in-car sat-nav to follow its progress - and an attached radio transmitter to find it when it parachutes back to earth. The photos taken by his device were so spectacular that Na...
Balloon NASA balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	1303	Apr 19 07:17 2010 by Blobrana
Giant NASA balloon lands in outback Scientists are trying to recover a massive NASA balloon and several tonnes of equipment that drifted into outback Queensland over the weekend. The 300-metre balloon was launched recently from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to gather data about the uni...
Balloon Alice Springs Space balloon (Preview)	Mission News	3	1203	Oct 25 10:06 2010 by Blobrana
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Balloon South Plains Balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	1173	Sep 28 17:35 2008 by Blobrana
What was that object in the sky Saturday evening?? Many residents of the South Plains reported seeing an unusual object in the northeastern skies Saturday evening between 7pm and 8pm. Many calls came in to the station around 7:15pm. It turns out that the object was a NASA scientific balloon launched...
Balloon Oklahoma balloon (Preview)	Mission News	1	1201	Aug 19 17:33 2008 by Blobrana
Students from OSUs Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled balloon 12 inches in diameter, the detector flew for more than two hours and reached 104,000 feet in altitude...
Balloon BEXUS 11 Balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	1118	Nov 23 11:51 2010 by Blobrana
Today, November 23, BEXUS 11 was successfully launched at 08:19 UTC. The BEXUS programme allows students from universities and higher education colleges across Europe to carry out scientific and technological experiments on research balloons. Each year, two balloons are launched, carrying u...
Balloon CREAM VI Balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	1237	Dec 22 07:54 2010 by Blobrana
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Balloon High Altitude Launch Opportunity (Preview)	Mission News	0	898	Mar 28 13:41 2011 by Blobrana
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Balloon Nasa scientific balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	987	Apr 20 14:19 2011 by Blobrana
A massive scientific balloon which was part of a research project for NASA has touched down in Longreach in central-west Queensland. The multi-million-dollar balloon was launched in Alice Springs on Tuesday as part of NASA's study of the Milky Way galaxy. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...
Balloon Senatobia-1 Mission (Preview)	Mission News	2	1144	May 18 23:30 2011 by Blobrana
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Balloon Montgolfier brothers flight (Preview)	Events	5	1674	Oct 14 22:39 2012 by Blobrana
On 4 June 1783, the Montgolfier brothers flew their hot air balloon as their first public demonstration at Annonay in front of a group of dignitaries from the Etats particulars. Its flight covered 2 km, lasted 10 minutes, and had an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000 m. Word of their success quickly r...
Balloon HiWind - Flight 620N (Preview)	Mission News	0	871	Jun 14 14:02 2011 by Blobrana
The HIWIND balloon-borne experiment was successfully launched from Kiruna, Sweden at 23:11 GMT, 13th June, 2011. Relayed Real Time GPS Data High-altitude Interferometer WIND experiment (HIWIND) is a balloon-borne Fa...
Balloon POET (Preview)	Mission News	1	1301	Sep 17 01:27 2011 by Blobrana
Title: POET: POlarimeters for Energetic Transients Authors: J.E. Hill, M.L. McConnell, P. Bloser, J. Legere, J. Macri, J. Ryan, S. Barthelmy, L. Angelini, T. Sakamoto, J.K. Black, D.H. Hartmann, P. Kaaret, B. Zhang, K. Ioka, T. Nakamura, K. Toma, R. Yamazaki, X. Wu POET (Polarimeters for Energet...
Balloon Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (Preview)	Events	0	796	Oct 2 17:26 2011 by Blobrana
Balloon launching world record broken A new world record has been set at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in America for the most balloons launched in one hour. Read more
Balloon Earth to Sky Balloon (Preview)	Mission News	1	1439	Apr 20 10:03 2012 by Blobrana
Students' Balloon to Observe Draconid Meteor Shower Students from a remote area in Central California close to the Nevada border may get a rare to opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Draconid meteor shower Saturday. A helium balloon experiment by a group of high school and middle school students a...
Balloon GUSSTO (Preview)	Mission News	0	989	Nov 3 10:33 2011 by Blobrana
UA team attempts to map Milky Way If they win NASA's $55 million grant, the UA Steward Observatory's GUSSTO mission will map the Milky Way galaxy through its telescope's 1-meter diameter mirror. About 1,000 feet of cable would connect the telescope to a balloon that can expand wider than a football f...
Balloon 'Spirit of Freedom' balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	998	Jul 2 22:53 2012 by Blobrana
In 2002, Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone, nonstop, in any kind of aircraft. He launched the 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia, on June 19, 2002 and returned to Australia on July 3, 2002, subsequently landing in Queensland. Du...
Balloon Stratosphere I Balloon (Preview)	Mission News	0	907	Sep 25 10:30 2012 by Blobrana
Navy telescope photographs the sun On Sept. 25, 1957, the Office of Naval Research took images of spots on the face of the sun with Stratosphere, the first balloon-borne telescope. [url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/25/looking-back-navys-first-photos-suns-corona/]Read mo...