The future of the NASA’s balloon launches at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine is coming into question ...

A cosmic mission in Antarctica led by U of A astronomer Christopher Walker just set a new NASA record for the longest scientific balloon flight. The team launched its massive helium balloon on Dec ...

A second super pressure balloon has been launched from Wānaka Airport by NASA. It comes just under a month after the first balloon was launched, and is planned to spend 100 days or more flying in ...

On January 12, winners Hayne Aung, Michael Liang, Nikhil Vallikat, and Aryamann Singh could begin building their scientific experiment on radiation for a NASA-sponsored suborbital balloon flight ...

The first is due to fly to the upper atmosphere in one of NASA’s high-altitude balloons. The other is slated to fly to the International Space Station in October aboard a SpaceX rocket.

NASA's "Scientific Balloon Program," earmarked for $49 million dollars as recently as the 2024 fiscal year, has been cut entirely from the 2026 budget. The NASA website established the Balloon ...

notably in NASA Technical Paper 3675 from 1997. Claiming a fundamental invention of coaxial rotors today is a significant overstatement,” the spokesperson added.CubePilot Global remains open to ...

A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Christopher Walker has been selected by NASA to launch a balloon-borne observatory to study the interstellar gas in the Milky Way galaxy and the ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre provided two sub-systems (detectors and micro-shutters). MPIA was responsible for procuring electrical components of the NIRSpec grating wheels. The JWST is the ...

Solar telescopes on Earth naturally have the same limited perspective. Only Ulysses, a joint mission of the European and American space agencies ESA and NASA, flew over the Sun's poles several times ...

Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch.