Citation: NASA balloon mission launches, with goal of breaking flight record (2017, April 26) ... Game-changing balloon technology enables near-global flight. Mar 24, 2017.

NASA’s super pressure balloon (SPB) experiment surfed a westerly flow of high-altitude winds above the southwest coast of Australia May 19.

The mission ended Sunday (May 4), well ahead of its 100-day schedule, after teams detected a small leak that began affecting the balloon's altitude, according to another NASA statement.

NASA plans to send an enormous balloon to the edge of Earth’s stratosphere in search of secrets about how stars and planets form.. The space agency’s ASTHROS mission will depart from ...

NASA's GUSTO mission, which launched from Antarctica on Dec. 31, set a new agency record for a heavy-lift, long-duration scientific balloon flight.

A super-pressure balloon from NASA, the size of a football stadium, completed its first round-the-world trip in just 16 days, after taking off from New Zealand on April 17th.

These three balloons will peer into the center our galaxy, study cosmic rays, and test technologies for future high-flying balloon missions. by Kiona Smith November 29, 2023 ...

In August, NASA plans to deploy a high-altitude balloon that'll hunt for gamma-rays, or high-energy wavelengths produced by some of the most powerful explosions in our universe. And last week, the ...

NASA’s GUSTO balloon-borne telescope will study high-frequency radio waves transmitted through the interstellar medium to help map the Milky Way. GUSTO will float over Antarctica for at least 55 ...

GREENBELT, Md. — Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosm… ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission, will start to integrate and test those subsystems in early August to ensure they work as intended.

A NASA and Russian Academy of Sciences’ Space Research Institute science definition team has been deliberating on the mission for almost four years, with a new report to be issued early next year.