After researching for years, the US Army has finally allocated funding of $4.2 billion over the next 10 years for aerostat ...

The first super pressure balloon flight of NASA's New Zealand Balloon Campaign reached its float altitude after lifting off ...

The HAPS Alliance today announced the release of its HAPS Reference Architecture Series: HAPS Advantages in an Era of Satellite Connectivity white paper. The paper is the ...

In 1783, hot air balloons became the first viable option for people to explore the world from the sky. In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open ...

Most amateur high altitude balloon payloads descend back to earth with a simple non-steerable parachute and can land hundreds of kilometers from the launch site in inaccessible areas. [Yohan Hadji ...

If you’re trying to do that, you might find some value in the Tiny4FSK project from the New England Weather Balloon Society. Tiny4FSK is intended to be a very small solution for high-altitude ...

The team recently developed a valve system to deflate balloons at high altitude gradually, enabling more controlled descents and easier recoveries. JP Aerospace makes money in part by launching ...

Browse a gallery of the U.S. Air Force's high-altitude balloon experiments and the researchers, scientists, and test pilots who made them possible.

Stratosphere-compatible high-altitude aircraft, also known as Uncrewed High-Altitude Platforms (HAPs), are attracting increasing interest in research and industry due to their wide range of potential ...