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, ...

A cutdown in high-altitude balloon (HAB) parlance refers to detaching a payload, and can refer to the act of severing a line or to the mechanism itself. How is this done? The most common way is ...

Description: Project BACCHUS aims to design, build, and test a payload that will attach directly to a high-altitude balloon and an Urban Sky remote sensing payload in order to control the system’s ...

Join us on Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the high-altitude ballooning ... video of the weather balloon breaking. Their most recent flight carried a more complex payload package, consisting ...

Wildland firefighters could have a new tool in their arsenal as they battle increasingly extreme wildfires: high-altitude ...

NASA’s 18.8-million-cubic-foot super balloon will soar at 110,000 feet, tracking winds, quakes, and atmospheric ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the ...

Even so, the arrival last month of a Chinese high-altitude balloon called for a measure of creativity, putting weapons to an unfamiliar test. On Jan. 28, a new and unexpected threat floated into U ...

The High Altitude Balloon Experiments in Technology (HABET ... It can take a couple of hours for the payload to return to the ground, and winds can carry the parachute for miles.

A tethered balloon, developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was successfully deployed on Wednesday to assist in the construction of ...

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 ...