A NASA super pressure balloon at altitude. This package is completed with batteries and an array of solar cells, which allow the system to operate day and night for as long as the balloon retains ...

Each balloon carried two persons, the pilot and an assistant. They were all muffled against cold, and prepared to face a hard journey. Little sleep is possible on a long voyage, and intense cold ...

About 3,000 cubic meters of gas took the balloon to a record 19,000 meters. Not long afterward, in early 1934, a Soviet civilian organization went to 22,000 meters in Osoaviakhim-1. However ...

This double balloon helium/hot air system, however, remains among the most successful designs for long distance ballooning. This same year, French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American ...

industry officials and media during a high-profile August 2023 ribbon-cutting ceremony dedicating the newly built 700-foot-long balloon factory on Bartow Way, just off an airport runway.

It is the biggest such memorial of its kind in Japan. Local authorities are planning year-long balloon rides on a trial basis to judge whether the activity could prove damaging to the environment ...