It’s well known that during World War II the Japanese put bombs on huge balloons and let them loose. The prevailing winds in the northern hemisphere blow from west to east. So if you put ...

While some of this data comes from satellite images and ground-based stations, a fine atmospheric vertical structure is collected by sensors mounted on weather balloons, released simultaneously ...

a standard satellite antenna. Both antennas were tested at various angles and elevations. By comparing the 3D-printed antenna with the standard antenna, they established a baseline for optimal ...

Investment in Urban Sky is ballooning. The Denver-based business, which makes and deploys balloons to take satellite images, has closed a $30 million funding round, according to SEC filings.

Numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems use large amounts of observational data gathered daily using satellite-based and ground-based instruments to make forecasts, but maintaining them is costly ...

PredictWind Founder Jon Bilger reflects on how far weather forecasting has come during National Weatherperson's Day: It's pretty incredible ...

NASA developed and tested a 3D-printed antenna to demonstrate a low-cost capability to communicate science data to Earth. The antenna, tested in flight using an atmospheric weather balloon, could open ...