But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air balloons as well as gas-filled ... project to test multi-stage parachutes made for high-altitude ejections. This was dangerous testing.

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

Included in the patent, titled “A high-altitude balloon safety control and positioning recovery device and method,” was a short-burst messaging module called Iridium 9602, Newsweek reported.

United States Air Force Brigadier General Stephen ... "We waited until it [Chinese military high-altitude surveillance balloon] was safely over water [off South Carolina], which would not only ...

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 ...

Even so, the arrival last month of a Chinese high-altitude balloon called for a measure of creativity, putting weapons to an unfamiliar test. One challenge was the balloon was flying at about ...

A US Air Force F-22 fighter jet shot the balloon ... by a 21-year-old US National Guard airman revealed that a high-altitude balloon with surveillance capabilities could have used synthetic ...

NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students soared into the stratosphere and captured our blue, round planet on cameras from an altitude of about 28 kilometers. Members of the astronomy ...