#nearspace — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nearspace, aggregated by home.social.
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Artemis II: How Is NASA Communicating With The Orion Crew Millions Of Miles Away In Deep Space?
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The Near Space Adventures of Bradfield the Bear https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/the-near-space-adventures-of-bradfield-the-bear/ #highaltitudeballoon #nearspace #TeddyBear #News
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Following the cessation of operations by the Space Perspective company, the mother ship MS VOYAGER is currently on its way to Louisiana, returning to the shipyard where it was adapted to operate with balloons.
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It's #FollowFriday !
Meet StratoCat, an Argentina-based independent source of historical data and news on the development of stratospheric balloons for scientific research, aerospace & military applications, and commercial exploitation of near space. Online since 2005.
The website also publishes the newsletter "World Balloon News"
#fedi22 #Ballooning #NearSpace #Science #Research #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space #Academy #Stratospheric
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Merely a few months after the successful balloon test flight of the Neptune-Excelsior capsule, Space Perspective the Florida-based company aimed to offer touristic rides on balloons to near space faces shutdown amid financial troubles, furloughs, and allegations of mismanagement.
#Balloon #NearSpace #Stratospheric #Technology #Research #Tourism #Titusville #SpacePerspective
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Yesterday, Aerostar launched a Thunderhead balloon from its balloon launch facility near Hurley, South Dakota.
The craft is moving eastbound across the midwest states.
Real time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2680b
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Technology #Space #Stratospheric #HBAL714
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NASA is participating in a collaborative effort to use high-altitude balloons to improve real-time communications among firefighters battling wildland fires.
During the first test of the system last August, the balloon after spending several days in wildfire areas in Idaho and Canada, finally landed in ....Iceland!
Full details and map: https://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/2024/BKR-20240804.htm
#Technology #NASA #Aerostar #Thunderhead #Balloon #Wildfires #NearSpace #RemoteSensing #Science
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Wanaka Airport announced the realization of the next NASA super-pressure balloon campaign from New Zealand in 2025.
One of the flights will carry #HIWINDS an experiment aimed to measure the daytime thermospheric winds by monitoring the neutral wind induced Doppler shift in the airglow emission.
The other flight will be a test for the super-pressure balloon itself (still under qualification) probably with a payload of opportunity.
#NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Stratospheric #NASA
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Barely know anything about scientific ballooning and associated R&D activities in India. They appear to regularly give presentations on TIFR Balloon Facility but not sure how to access these..
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp...44.3358B/abstract
https://app.cospar-assembly.org/2023/browser/presentation/33046
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The BALMAN mission was successfully performed today. At 4:00 UTC, the balloon was launched from the observation point "Colibri" near the Ariane 6 launch pad of the Centre Spatial Guyanaise in Kourou.
After reaching an altitude of 17.8 km the mission was terminated and the balloon impacted in the Atlantic Ocean, 42 km NE of Kourou.
The total flight time was 3 hours.
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Astrodon #CNES #HEMERIA #CSG #Stratospheric #BALMAN
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After some training performed at the Aire Sur L'Adour centre CNES is ready to test in flight for the first time the BALMAN steerable balloon.
The test will ake place at the Centre Spatial Guyanaise in French Guiana between Oct. 30 and Nov. 15.
https://centrespatialguyanais.cnes.fr/fr/campagne-balman-au-csg
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Astrodon #CNES #HEMERIA #CSG #Stratospheric
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Sceye Inc. launched a new mission for its Stratospheric Airship this morning from its hangar in the Roswell Industrial Air Center in New Mexico.
The airship is currently over Texas airspace.
Real-time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a6838f
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Stratospheric #Sceye #Airship
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Zephalto, the French company aimed to offer in the near future manned flights to the stratosphere performed a crewed test over Occitanie, France on October 11th.
The hydrogen-filled zero-pressure balloon carried a pressurized capsule named Lucy with two pilots onboard.
During the three-hour flight the balloon that departed from the Albi Airfield, reached an altitude of 6 kilometers before landing near Agde.
#Balloon #Zephalto #Lucy #Balloon #CNES #NearSpace #Stratospheric #Technology
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While HBAL712 continues to wander off the southeastern Australian coast, Aerostar launched another Thunderhead, HBAL 713, from Dangel Airfield near Hurley (SD) yesterday morning.
HBAL 712 tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a26f79
HBAL 713 tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a26454
Off the grid there are three more balloons: HBAL 676 and HBAL 684 over the Pacific Ocean and HBAL 711 over the Atlantic Ocean.
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Research #Technology #Stratospheric #Aerostar
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Aerostar established a new record with one of their Thunderhead balloons being aloft for 200 days and counting.
Mission HBAL676 launched on March 28 from the firm's winter Lodge in Santa Fe County, is still floating 60 kft above the Pacific Ocean.
The previous record was 156 days aloft.
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #Aerostar #Thunderhead
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Yesterday, October 9th, Aerostar performed another launch of a Thunderhead balloon.
On a first for the company, the balloon was launched from the Beecroft Weapons Range in New South Wales, Australia.
The site is administered by the Australian Defence Force for use as a live-firing range.
Real-time tracking: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N256TH
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Military #Research #Technology #Space #Stratospheric #Thunderhead #Aerostar #BeecroftWeaponsRange
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Aerostar launched today from TCOM's Manufacturing & Flight Test Facility located in Elizabeth City (NC) a #Thunderhead balloon.
The craft with callsign #HBAL710 is floating now over the Atlantic Ocean at 60.000 ft.
This is the first time that the Sioux Falls-based firm launches from there.
Real-time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aceb11
#Aerostar #Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Stratospheric
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The Stratollite balloon launched by World View on September 15th from Page (AZ) landed today in Southern Kansas after more than 20 days aloft.
Pictures by Wes Pettygrew
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #STEM #Research #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric
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According to some sources, unsuitable weather conditions prevented HALO Space from conducting the planned balloon test flight of their capsule in Layla, 350 km southeast of Riyadh.
#HaloSpace #Balloon #NearSpace #Technology #ArabianDesert #Stratospheric #HighAltitudeBalloon #Layla
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First images of HALO SPACE capsule testing in the Arabian Desert ahead of the balloon launch mission to be conducted soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi0hwFMo9GI
#HaloSpace #Balloon #NearSpace #Technology #ArabianDesert #Stratospheric #HighAltitudeBalloon
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HBAL684 made a guest apparition over the LA area yesterday. Today this balloon marked for the second time in a month a new endurance record for #Aerostar #Thunderhead balloons completing 156 days aloft since she was launched from #Indiantown (FL) on April 22.
However, the top current record for the company is held by HBAL676 launched from Santa Fe County (NM) on March 28. It has been 181 days in flight.
Both balloons are in flight off the Californian coast.
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Real time tracking of balloon mission 748N now working properly.
Follow the balloon's path at: https://towerfts.csbf.nasa.gov/Maps/ConvGps748N.htm
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #Cryogenics #GammaRay #NASA
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NASA balloon mission 748N transporting DR-TES (Dilution Refrigerator - Transition Edge Sensor) cryogenic detector experiment developed at the Washington University, St Louis airborne at 14:44 UTC.
Real-time tracking of the balloon path : https://towerfts.csbf.nasa.gov/Maps/ConvGps748N.htm (yet NOT WORKING)
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #Cryogenics #GammaRay #NASA
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Now underway at NASA balloon base in Ft Sumner launch operations for the last flight of the fall campaign.
Mission 748N will transport DR-TES (Dilution Refrigerator Transition Edge Sensor) an experiment aimed to observe X-rays or gamma-rays with unprecedented energy resolutions.
Live stream available at https://video.ibm.com/channel/nasa-educational
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric
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On September 15, 2024 Space Perspective, the balloon firm planning to offer leisure #stratospheric balloon flights in the future, performed an uncrewed test flight of its #Neptune capsule.
The balloon was launched onboard the firm's ship #Voyager steaming 80 miles W of #Bradenton shore in the Gulf of Mexico.
The flight took a little more than six hours and the #capsule splashed down in the Gulf waters 175 miles WSW of departure point.
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The most recent report about the Stratollite location comes from Carbondale, in Central Colorado.
Image below taken by Tommy Sands.
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #ARMAS #Research #NASA #WorldView #Technology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #Stratollite
