A fleet of balloon robots has been launched to capture high-resolution aerial images of the US. Near Space Labs, a US-based startup, aims to use these stratospheric robots to monitor and assess ...

France is leaning hard into near space, warning the area is increasingly contested, as evidenced by the Chinese spy ballon ...

Autonomous balloons high in Earth’s atmosphere are taking incredibly detailed photos of neighbourhoods and individual homes in 28 US states, and from January 2025, they will be able to ...

A Microballoon launch takes ~10 minutes, making this system a rapidly deployable, low-cost option to capture high-resolution, broad-area imagery. Courtesy Urban Sky This August, strange balloons ...

If a series of balloons could carry high-resolution telescopes like this one, and be regularly launched and landed as needed, it would be an invaluable aid to astronomers the world over.

Starlink has been making tremendous progress towards providing world-wide access to broadband Internet access, but there are a number of downsides to satellite-based internet such as the cluttering… ...

Those balloons reaching high altitudes ... we have done flights out past 150 days in duration with a single balloon now. And with Loon, our record by the end was 320 days.

And ultimately, that single flight marked the end of a brief era of high-altitude, crewed balloon flights. You see, NASA and its fledgling Mercury Program had put John Glenn in orbit just six ...

Warning about potential high-fatality accidents, safety investigators recommended two years ago that the Federal Aviation Administration impose greater oversight on commercial hot air balloon opera… ...

China's spy balloon sought to intercept communications, U.S. officials say 02:22. After the House unanimously passed a resolution condemning China over its surveillance balloon, Beijing responded ...