High above Antarctica, where the air is thin and the Sun circles the horizon for weeks, a fleet of giant NASA balloons has ...
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 completed its Antarctic balloon campaign using high-altitude balloons to study cosmic rays, anti-matter and high-energy ...
NASA has successfully concluded its scientific balloon campaign in Antarctica, aimed at studying cosmic particles and ...
NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December.
image: Team members work on the ComPair balloon instrument before it begins thermal vacuum chamber testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ComPair project manager Regina ...
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 ...
NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has reached new heights, both literally and figuratively, with four successful ...
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 ...