Superpressure balloons are typically used for extremely long duration flights of unmanned scientific experiments in the upper atmosphere, ...

SuperBIT is scheduled to launch on a superpressure balloon in April 2022 from Wanaka, New Zealand. During its flight it will circumnavigate the Earth, ...

The project, called the Superpressure Balloon-born Imaging telescope , uses a helium-filled balloon the size of a football field to raise a .5-meter telescope to a 40-kilometer altitude. At that ...

NASA recently created a "superpressure" balloon that can contain helium for months, which would allow the space telescope to maintain altitude for an extended period of time and thus enable ...

NASA launched the super pressure balloon (SPB) out of New Zealand's Wānaka Airport on Friday (May 12) at 8:02 p.m. EDT (0002 GMT and 12:02 p.m. local New Zealand time on Saturday, May 13). After ...

The Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was announced on Tuesday (July 20) by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Its creators include researchers from Durham University in ...

GREENBELT — Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are trying to design and build a super balloon that could keep a ton of astronomical instruments in the upper atmosphere for more ...

The WISDOM project uses hundreds of "superpressure" balloons (Figure 1) to take data around the periphery of a hurricane. These balloons carry a 100 gram GPS receiver and satellite radio ...

CHICO (CBS13) - It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's just a couple of Google balloons with Internet access. Wait, what? With permission from the city of Chico, the tech company launched two test ...