Tag: Balloon
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NASA gives a lift to 57 high-flying student experiments, including one from the Seattle area
NASA launches a Raven Aerostar high-altitude balloon. (NASA Photo / Bill Rodman) NASA has chosen 57 winning teams — including a team from Interlake High School in Bellevue, Wash.— to receive funding to build and fly experiments focusing on subjects ranging from lunar dust mitigation to inkjet printing in zero gravity. Interlake’s team will focus…
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Space Perspective reboots vision of flying passengers to stratosphere on a balloon
Space Perspective’s balloon-borne capsule, known as Spaceship Neptune, would provide a wide-angle view of the Florida coastline. (Space Perspective Illustration) The space entrepreneurs who planned to send passengers ballooning into the stratosphere for astronaut’s-eye views of the Earth below, way back in 2013, have revived the idea for a new venture called Space Perspective. Co-CEOs…
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Up, up and away: NetMotion sends a Skype connection into the stratosphere
The curving Earth and the black sky of space serve as the backdrop for NetMotion Software’s balloon-borne contraption, outfitted with an iPad that maintained a Skype connection at an altitude of 85,000 feet. (NetMotion Software via YouTube) What’s the best way to show off your mobile networking technology? How about demonstrating that the technology can…
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Former Insitu CEO makes the leap over to World View stratospheric balloon venture
An artist’s conception shows World View’s Stratollite platform in action. (World View Illustration) For three and a half years, Ryan Hartman served as president and CEO of Insitu — the Boeing subsidiary headquartered in Bingen, Wash., that pioneered the creation of unmanned aircraft systems for military and commercial applications. Now Hartman will raise his sights as…