18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
...Earth’s upper atmosphere could diminish global warming by blocking sunlight, scientists at Harvard University are proposing a stratospheric balloon experiment to test just that. If given the go-ahead, small amounts of chalky dust will be dropped into...
October 2025
Pioneering affordable and flexible access to near space
... have demonstrated use cases in maritime surveillance, backup communications networks and emergency response. Preparation of a stratospheric balloon during an ocean launch from a ship. Evolving ambitions Looking ahead, B2Space aims to play a leading...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
...lives without it Google’s Project Loon is designed to provide worldwide internet coverage using a fleet of stratospheric balloons. Each balloon will float in the stratosphere and provide internet access to the population in a large area below it. The...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... for conducting scientific experiments free from the constraints of gravity - free-fall towers, drops from a stratospheric balloon and sounding rockets as well as recoverable microgravity platforms and automatic satellites, from nanosatellites and...
