it’s just a matter of waiting for the target height before separating from the weather balloon, then using the servos to navigate to the landing zone. Unfortunately the project was never fully ...

A weather balloon carrying 66 to 88 pounds of scientific equipment fell from the sky and landed in Jalsangi village in ...

Unless there are Warhammer 40,000 nerds on the international space station, Michael Patterson is the first to send a 40k mini ...

The cause of the albatross’s misery was evident: it was caught in a weather balloon. The balloon’s string, still attached to a radio transmitter, had gouged into the bird’s flesh ...

Students will be launching a weather balloon 100,000 feet into the Earth’s atmosphere. During the project, each grade level will be doing its own observations about radiation, ozone layers and more.

High-altitude balloon photography offers a glimpse of Earth's landscapes from the stratosphere, a perspective typically ...

The National Weather Service started launching weather balloons in the 1930s (when it was formerly known as the Weather Bureau). The storm of interest is now over land, even though it's more than ...

[David] notes that using some pretty simple gear, he could track down weather balloons. The U.S. National Weather Service sends up a large number of radiosondes attached to balloons twice a day.