Weather balloons begin with a width of about six ... with some ability to navigate itself and it also had a significant payload attached that was the size of three school busses, according to ...

There has been a lot of news about balloons lately. The Chinese recently sent a giant remote-controlled surveillance balloon with a huge payload across North America that they said was a weather ...

Two years ago, the United States was under the spell of mysterious Chinese weather balloons ... was indeed a spy balloon. The other objects were not. “The technical payload, however, allowed ...

With six teams assigned to specific aspects of the project, the Northeast Middle School Electronics Club recently coordinated a successful 70-mile flight of a weather balloon across mid-Michigan ...

However, Phil Wocken with World View said weather balloons pop at high altitudes ... Arizona last Saturday and it’s “carrying a payload for NASA.” It’s currently flying at 73,000 ...

However, Phil Wocken with World View said weather balloons pop at high altitudes ... Arizona last Saturday and it’s “carrying a payload for NASA.” It’s currently flying at 73,000 ...

The Federal Aviation Administration restricts the payload to 6 pounds ... Orbital also made weather balloons, which gave Knoblach the idea for Space Data. "I realized that the balloons could ...

The robotics class launched their annual high-altitude weather balloon from the ... spent months preparing the helium balloon, camera equipment and payload to reach and capture the view more ...

is “carrying a payload for NASA,” Wocken added. It is one of the company’s Stratollite balloons, which is similar to a weather balloon, however it does not pop when flying at high altitudes.

DEFIANCE, Ohio — Four seniors from Toledo Technology Academy of Engineering launched a high-altitude weather balloon Monday at ... and modify a space-ready payload for a ThinSat satellite ...

The launch team — Chase Wills, Eli Steele, Leah Morningstar, Chase Bennett, Keach Nhial and Ayden Johns — made sure the payload was tied securely to the balloon by using the right knots.