October 2025
Pioneering affordable and flexible access to near space
...Near Space Testing (NST) This provides a stratospheric testbed for the qualification of space technologies under ...in hybrid space architectures that integrate terrestrial, aerial, stratospheric and orbital layers, focusing on Long-Endurance Platforms ...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
...made towards defining the optimum legal framework for the stratospheric airspace in which HAPS vehicles will operate. Indeed... of vehicles expected to make more intensive use of the stratosphere has now increased debate on what form this should take....
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... demonstrated that Saturn is no different – a similar chain of eastward and westward winds is slowly sinking over the equatorial stratosphere with an approximate 15 year period. When viewed in the infrared, this causes the equator to brighten and dim...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... population in a large area below it. The balloons are mobile, and will drift with the stratospheric winds across the globe. Stratospheric winds, their velocities and directions, which alter with altitude, are well-studied and...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
...Spectrometer (CIRS) could not peek further up in the northern stratosphere as the region was around 20 degrees too cold for ...) could not provide reliable CIRS observations. As the northern stratosphere has began to warm up in the last few years...
15 November 2021
Earth's lower atmosphere is rising due to climate change, new study says
...five areas; the troposphere comes first, then the stratosphere, while the middle region is known as the mesosphere...and turbulent troposphere from the overlying and more stable stratosphere. Because the tropopause responds to the average temperature of...
