These modules will guide you through the skill-building activities of a balloon payload workshop. If you have any questions or run into problems as you build, email [email protected] In order to ...

The UMass Lowell High Altitude Balloon project (UML HAB) has created a reusable balloon payload for taking instruments to the edge of space! This system includes a hot wire cutdown mechanism, ...

Wildland firefighters could have a new tool in their arsenal as they battle increasingly extreme wildfires: high-altitude balloons ... that we're carrying an LTE payload that can beam that ...

Join us on Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the high-altitude ... a similar payload but managed to blow through the 100K foot altitude, capturing stunning video of the weather balloon breaking.

Balloons, of course, can simply rise to the occasion. Auguste Piccard and an assistant took a gas-filled balloon to 15,781 meters in 1931. Their gondola ... made for high-altitude ejections.