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 vcorral@colorado.edu In order to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 balloons ... that we're carrying an LTE payload that can beam that ...

The object in the sky is a high-altitude balloon launched by World ... is filled with helium and a super-pressure ballast balloon to lift a payload into the stratosphere. According to a company ...

Sumner, New Mexico as part of the High Altitude Student Payload platform. Since our last flight on the 2023 HASP platform, we have improved the design of the LunaSats by rewiring the PCB and opting ...

Members of the astronomy club of Asahigaoka Senior High School here flew the high-altitude balloon ... Club members designed and produced the balloon’s payload by raising about 800,000 yen ...

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 ...

A scientific balloon from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research crashed in a Sangola town residential area, 400 km from ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon ... High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, will fly as a mission of opportunity on the first flight. The HIWIND payload ...