Tag: Near-space
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Judge voids Arizona county’s development deal for World View’s strato-balloon base
World View’s team prepares a high-altitude balloon to carry a solar observatory payload into the stratosphere. (Credit: Carmen Noriega / World View) A judge in Arizona has struck down Pima County’s $15 million development deal with World View Enterprises for a stratospheric balloon launch facility near Tucson. Thursday’s ruling by Pima County Superior Court Judge Catherine…
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Balloons rise up on the strato-frontier
Project Loon’s balloons are getting better at staying in one place. (Credit: Project Loon via YouTube) Drones, satellites and rocket planes are all well and good for high-flying missions, but sometimes the best craft for the job is a balloon. Google’s Project Loon, for example, is enlisting machine learning to pilot its experimental data-beaming balloons through…
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Get in touch with the stratosphere through Microsoft’s Pegasus II balloon mission
The sun shines above the clouds in a view captured by the Pegasus I balloon experiment. (Credit: MIcrosoft Research) How high can the Internet of Things go? Microsoft Research plans to extend the IoT into the stratosphere with its Pegasus II high-altitude balloon experiment, and you’re invited to take a virtual ride. The mission was scheduled…