As a kind of flexible aircraft, the aerodynamic configuration of airship is maintained by superpressure of internal gas completely. And the pressure difference must be controlled in a safe range.

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

A NASA scientific balloon flight was terminated Sunday (May 14) after the craft developed an irreparable leak about a day and a half into flight.

NASA's second-of-its kind high-altitude balloon sprang a leak and is now at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

SuperBIT (the Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope) was launched from Wanaka, New Zealand, on April 16 by a team of researchers from the university, along with the University of Toronto ...

The Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a collaboration between Durham University, the University of Toronto, Princeton University, and NASA.

Our astronomers are part of an international team behind the successful first research flight of an innovative balloon-borne telescope that will investigate the mystery of dark matter. The ...

A research paper on a superpressure balloon titled “New Design Concept and Flight Test of Superpressure Balloon” (Journal of JSASS Vol. 49 No. 564) by Naoki Izutsu and others in Scientific Ballooning, ...

Lab Grown Diamonds vs. Natural Diamonds “Companies actually worked to create the first batch of lab-grown diamonds in the 1950s,” Atlas says. It was GE that did it first, under a program called ...

The record for a Nasa superpressure balloon flight is 54 days. When fully inflated and sailing at 33.5km above Earth, the balloon is about the size of the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin. Nasa's ...