As it floats, the balloon will be as wide as a football field. NASA uses two types of balloons to lift payloads towards the atmosphere: zero-pressure and super-pressure balloons.

The platform allows small-volume, zero-pressure balloons to carry 12 student-built payloads at a time to an altitude of approximately 36 kilometers for around 15 to 20 hours.

Zero-pressure balloons have been the backbone of NASA’s balloon program since the 1960s, when they featured in a series of manned space suit tests in preparation for the Mercury Program.

Image shows multi-channel camera designed and built by UMass Lowell as part of a balloon launch on Saturday, May 3. The camera is studying how Earth’s atmosphere produces natural light emissions ...

GUSTO will lift off attached to a zero-pressure balloon, open at the bottom and sides to allow gas to escape.

Space Perspective worked with Mercedes-Maybach to design its luxury balloon, which will take tourists to the edge of space for $125,000 per ticket.

NASA’s GUSTO balloon-borne telescope will study high-frequency radio waves transmitted through the interstellar medium to help map the Milky Way.

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in high-altitude flight and atmospheric research.

For its ascent, the spacecraft uses tried-and-tested zero-pressure balloon technology, filled with green hydrogen, like that used for many years by space agencies such as CNES and NASA for ...

The campaign includes three scientific balloon flights from the long-duration balloon (LDB) Camp near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Five Missions for Zero-Pressure Balloons ...

For its ascent, the spacecraft uses zero-pressure balloon technology filled with green hydrogen produced locally at the take-off site via renewable energy, including solar and wind. The vehicle will ...

Manu Ginobili's play on the basketball court was often out of this world and on Thursday the Argentine great's San Antonio Spurs jersey was just that as the NBA had it sent into space with a zero ...