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

Superpressure balloons are made out of tightly sealed plastic capable of containing highly pressurised lighter-than-air gases. The aim is to keep the volume of the balloon relatively stable, ...

Superpressure balloons are made out of tightly sealed plastic capable of containing highly pressurised lighter-than-air gases. The aim is to keep the volume of the balloon relatively stable, even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google says it will soon have a string of 300 internet-beaming balloons circling the Earth, as three Indonesian firms agree to join its trials.

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 ...

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