Collaborate Disseminate
When someone says they’re planning on using a balloon to take tourists to the edge of outer space, you may wonder if they’ll ever get past the conceptual stage. Space Perspective has gotten past it, though, by building a physical test model of its Nept… Continue reading Space Perspective shows off test version of tourist-carrying space capsule
The Great American Eclipse was a solar eclipse that passed nearly the entire continental United States back in 2017. While it might sound like a once-in-a-lifetime event to experience a …read more Continue reading Balloon to Fly During Solar Eclipse
If you’ve ever thought about launching a high-altitude balloon, there’s much to consider. One of the things is how do you stream video down so that you — and others …read more Continue reading Balloon-Eye View via Ham Radio
Starlink has been making tremendous progress towards providing world-wide access to broadband Internet access, but there are a number of downsides to satellite-based internet such as the cluttering of low-Earth …read more Continue reading Networking With Balloons
The reports of the death of automotive AM radio may have been greatly exaggerated. Regular readers will recall us harping on the issue of automakers planning to exclude AM from …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 21, 2023
We think of human flight as a relatively modern affair, with a few claims to the first airplane all around the turn of the last century. But people flew much …read more Continue reading Rising to the Occasion: A Brief History of Crewed High Altitude Balloons
The amateur ballooning community has experienced a wave of interest after the U.S. went on a balloon killing spree. Continue reading CYBER: The Great Balloon Panic Has Been Weird But Good for Balloon Hobbyists
At any vaguely-related conferences, groups of hackers sometimes come together to create an impact, and sometimes that impact is swinging something into an airspace of a neighboring country. [deadprogram] tells …read more Continue reading FOSDEM Sees Surprise Pico Balloon Event
High-altitude platform stations (HAPS) are effective tools for communication and surveillance because they operate from the stratosphere, usually at around 12 miles (20 km) above the Earth, much closer than satellites. There are two types of HAPS: ligh… Continue reading “Sailing the winds”: How stratospheric balloons navigate the skies
When the US Air Force shot down some suspected Chinese spy balloons a couple of weeks ago, it was widely reported that one of the targets might have been a …read more Continue reading Answering Some Pico Balloon Questions