{"id":18691,"date":"2017-12-20T01:21:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/world-view-balloon-goes-boom-after-spaceport-tucson-test-no-injuries-reported\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T01:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:21:19","slug":"world-view-balloon-goes-boom-after-spaceport-tucson-test-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/world-view-balloon-goes-boom-after-spaceport-tucson-test-no-injuries-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"World View balloon goes boom after Spaceport Tucson test; no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> A high-altitude balloon reportedly exploded at Spaceport Tucson in Arizona today after a test that was being conducted by World View Enterprises. No injuries were reported, but the loud boom shook up residents in the surrounding area. The Arizona Daily Star quoted World View spokesman Andrew Antonio as saying that the tethered balloon ruptured after a successful ground test to fill it with gas. The resulting explosion caused \u201csuperficial facility damage,\u201d he said. World View can use either helium or hydrogen in its balloons, but the company didn\u2019t say what was being used in this case. World View\u2019s balloons loft \u201cStratollite\u201d instrument platforms into the stratosphere. For more, check out the Daily Star\u2019s report and this week\u2019s report about World View\u2019s first Stratollite imagery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update for 10:35 a.m. PT Dec. 22:<\/strong> A video of the explosion clearly shows the gas within the balloon going up in flames, which suggests that World View was using flammable hydrogen. KGUN reports that two of the company\u2019s employees were treated for ringing in the ears. Also, World View tweeted that \u201cwe have initiated an investigation to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"VIDEO: Watch the World View balloon explode\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d5zyplFsY8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: A high-altitude balloon reportedly exploded at Spaceport Tucson in Arizona today after a test that was being conducted by World View Enterprises. No injuries were reported, but the loud boom shook up residents in the surrounding area. The Arizona Daily Star quoted World View spokesman Andrew Antonio as saying that the tethered balloon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4671,5292,4805,4807],"class_list":["post-18691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-balloon","tag-spaceport-tucson","tag-stratosphere","tag-world-view-enterprises"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}