The Army Requirements Oversight Council in December greenlighted the pursuit of high-altitude balloons and fixed-wing, solar-powered platforms along with payloads capable of deep sensing, per an ...

“When they see the balloon, it just looks like a little white dot in the sky, right?” said Russ Van Der Werff, Aerostar vice ...

“We’re looking at these kinds of novel platforms when it comes to what capabilities can we acquire either from a high-altitude balloon, solar and fixed-wing aircraft,” Barker said in a Dec ...

The Army is simulating high-altitude balloon flights in Japan this month as part of a plan to expand intelligence gathering in the Indo-Pacific region. The 1st Multi-Domain Effects Battalion ...

High-altitude balloons, such as the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key “delivery platform” for secret nuclear strikes on America’s ...

Except Honghu focused on creating high-altitude, so-called near-space balloons, balloons that can float up to 40, 50 to 65,000 feet high. CARL SCHUSTER: The beauty of a balloon is it flies above ...

A Sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 conducts a search for debris with an underwater vehicle during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 7, 2023.

A startup building massive, bullet-shaped helium balloons that float in the stratosphere has raised $15 million from Japan’s ...

U.S. Indo-Pacific command joint forces will be deploying High Altitude Balloons (HABs) to Guam and the airspace in vicinity of the Mariana Islands between June 7 - 18, 2024 in support of Valiant ...

For high-altitude balloons, the promise is that by reaching a point in the sky between 60,000 to 90,000 feet above ground, the concerns of terrestrial weather will be minimal, and the few winds ...

Military investigates high-altitude balloon over U.S. 01:48 The small, high-altitude hobbyist balloon being tracked by the U.S. has left American airspace, the North American Aerospace Defense ...

High altitude platforms like solar power drones, balloons, airships, etc, can provide secure and flexible coverage at lower cost compared to satellites, a senior official of telecom industry body ...