NASA’s Balloon Program Office successfully completed the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) at 3:54 p.m. EDT, Saturday, July 2, setting a new flight duration record for a ...

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One of NASA’s gigantic science balloons developed a leak a mere day and a half into its flight, causing it to plummet into the Pacific Ocean, not far from the New Zealand coast. While teams on the ...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is back in Antarctica, launching two exciting balloon missions that aim to uncover some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. The missions kicked off in early December ...

A NASA scientific balloon mission just set a new agency record, spending 57 days floating in the skies above the South Pole. The mission, called the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Experts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta this year as the annular solar eclipse passes ...

High above Antarctica, two giant NASA balloons are being readied to drift along the edge of space, turning the polar sky into a laboratory for some of the hardest questions in physics. Instead of ...

Residents in the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes, such as Argentina and South Africa, may catch a glimpse of a large NASA heavy-lift scientific balloon as it travels around the globe on a ...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is scheduled to conduct two super pressure balloon (SPB) launches from Wānaka, New Zealand, to further test and qualify the technology, which can offer cost savings ...

NASA preps one of its high-altitude balloons for launch. NASA/Bill Rodman After just over a day in flight, NASA was forced to ditch one of its massive high-altitude science balloons in the ocean after ...

After an impressive journey spanning 39 days and 14 hours, NASA's Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) has successfully completed its global flight test. Launched from Wānaka Airport in ...

A football field-sized super balloon floating through the stratosphere with a high-tech telescope is taking stunning images of distant galaxies that NASA is sharing with stargazers. The Super Pressure ...