While the idea behind Loon sounds simple in theory, it turns out that it was more complicated than just floating up some weather balloon with LTE base stations strapped to them. A NASA super ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...

A helium-filled balloon is tethered at Flyger’s Hut, about a mile southeast of Station Nord. The instrument will measure air turbulence, solar and terrestrial radiation, and black carbon from ...

(KCTV) - Science City at Union Station is getting a head start on celebrating ... highlight of the celebration is the three simultaneous balloon drops at 6pm. “More than 2,000 balloons this ...