Sentences with phrase «altitude balloons»

A question: Given that cosmic rays are measured using high altitude balloons, is it reasonable to conclude that any direct effect on clouds will be at high altitudes?

The Aerostar Division manufactures high - altitude balloons and tethered aerostats, along with parachutes and protective wear.

This spring, the project will launch into the stratosphere several high - altitude balloons that include student - designed and - built payloads.

Accurately pointing instruments mounted on high - altitude balloons at their intended targets can be very difficult.

The reason I mention it,» Jack said, «is one of their high - altitude balloons is for sale on eBay...»

«Moreover, high - altitude balloons above 95 percent of the Earth's atmosphere allow for observations in the ultraviolet - and infrared - wavelength bands, which aren't possible with ground - based telescopes.

So researchers including Eliot Young of the Southwest Research Institute and Daniel Bowman of Sandia National Laboratories are looking for quieter places to position these sensors — in this case tethering them to high - altitude balloons.

For years Chakrabarti and his colleagues have been pursuing a middle way between the laboratory and orbit, using NASA funding to conduct low - cost test flights of these advanced optics technologies with small suborbital rockets and high - altitude balloons that reach the edge of outer space.

She and more than 50 groups across the United States will launch high - altitude balloons to film the moon's shadow racing across the Earth and broadcast it over the internet as it happens (eclipse.stream.live).

Tom Moore, a senior VP at the broadband satellite company ViaSat, is taking the reins at Project Loon, the ambitious effort to string high - altitude balloons into a global internet network.

Project Loon uses high - altitude balloons, which are placed in the stratosphere for creating an aerial wireless network with speeds as fast as 4G LTE.

Alphabet, which announced its Project Loon in 2013 to use solar - powered, high - altitude balloons to provide internet service in remote regions, said in an FCC filing it was working to «support licensed mobile carriers» restoration of limited communications capability» in Puerto Rico.

Last year it announced Project Loon, a seemingly quixotic foray into high - altitude balloons.

Musk, 43, also has publicly talked about using satellites to provide Internet access to remote parts of the Earth, a mission that Google also has embraced in a separate project that relies on high - altitude balloons.

Likewise, World View Enterprises closed a $ 26.5 million round of funding to further develop its technology to send equipment to the edge of space using high - altitude balloons.

The trip included VIP tours of a number of leading entrepreneurial space companies (including some of our portfolio companies), a high - altitude balloon launch with Stanford's Student Spaceflight Initiative, and special guests including Pete Worden and Steve Jurvetson.

The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.

A high - altitude balloon is readied for a 2011 launch at a NASA facility in New Mexico.

The solar balloon was able to detect one of the explosions, and the researchers noted that the amplitude of the infrasound signal was about five times stronger than that detected by the high - altitude balloon.

BICEP2 has plenty of competition in searching for B - mode polarization in the CMB: other projects include the Atacama B - mode Search (ABS) led by Princeton University; the POLARBEAR experiment led by the University of California, Berkeley; the high - altitude balloon — borne E and B Experiment (EBEX) run by the University of Minnesota; the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) led by Johns Hopkins University; and numerous others.

The high altitude balloon, launched by Vanderbilt, will carry a 12 pound payload or scientific instruments for research and a camera for live streaming.

The EBEX experiment is currently being integrated at Columbia's Nevis laboratories for it's first flight from a high - altitude balloon in the spring of 2009.

The IPCC's gold - standard for upper troposphere data is the UK's HadAT2 dataset that represents high altitude balloon / radiosonde measurements.

Researchers have proposed that artificially introducing aerosols into the atmosphere — via a plane or a high - altitude balloon — could have a similar cooling effect.

High - altitude balloon technology might be used to inject sulphates into the stratosphere to «geoengineer» global cooling.

The high altitude ballooning with the help of Raspberry Pi made it easier for him to get some incredible panoramic Earth photos.

Not exact matches

He learned to skydive, since the only way to survive a problem with the balloon at altitude would be to jump, free fall to thicker air, and then parachute to the water.

Arizona - based World View Enterprises Inc. is developing a fleet of high - altitude platforms, called stratollites, carried by balloons to the edge of space.

Baumgartner shattered three other world records: highest manned balloon flight, highest altitude jump and the fastest free fall.

That's the huge infrastructure challenge faced by Indonesia, and one that Google hopes to address using its high altitude «Project Loon» balloons.

Steering is made possible by moving the balloons to different altitudes - where stratospheric winds travel in different directions.

Project Loon aims to deliver high - speed internet connectivity by using giant helium balloons to function as airborne mobile phone towers, floating untethered at an altitude of 20 km.

A crypto mining company has sent a balloon into the stratosphere to mine bitcoin on the edge of space, reaching over 35,000 meters in altitude.

The balloons float in the stratosphere gaining and losing altitude to find the right wind patterns to carry them where the need to be.

Balloonists can steer a balloon to a limited extent, by adjusting the balloon's altitude to make use of different wind speeds and directions.

This year, he'll put his life on the line to test his design by piloting a hot air balloon by himself to about 50,000 feet, far above the altitude of commercial jetliners.

But I'll have to go up to the really high altitudes alone because my balloon's volume provides enough buoyancy to lift only me and a lightweight life - support system through that thin air.

Knighton's predecessors at MSU came up with a cheaper alternative: weather balloons, $ 250 - 600 apiece, that can float to altitudes of 100,000 feet.

During / the midmorning of March 21, they soared into the history books when their balloon, Breitling Orbiter 3, sped at 130 miles an hour at an altitude of 36,000 feet over an invisible finish line at 9 degrees 27 minutes west longitude in Mauritania.

During the test, a large saucer - shaped disk carrying an inflatable inner tube - shaped decelerator and parachute system will be carried to an altitude of 120,000 feet by a giant balloon.

The experiment is the first major test of a piping system that could one day spew sulfate particles into the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 kilometers, supported by a stadium - size hydrogen balloon.

In a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain down.

Even the X-rays get absorbed, which is why we have to go to balloon altitudes to see them.»

As the balloon rises in altitude, the change in atmospheric pressure on the balloon also changes, and the pressure waves are larger than infrasound waves.

They carried out low - altitude aerial photography with a weather balloon in order to detect landscape features and the borders of mass graves.

During that flight, a 30 - story balloon lifted an engineering test unit of the HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) to an altitude of nearly 122,000 feet, far above the majority of Earth's atmosphere.

The balloon, made of plastic as thin as a dry - cleaning bag, rises to a float height of about 120,000 feet, which is three or four times higher than the cruising altitude of commercial airliners.

Scientific balloons have already flown at much higher altitudes, but they must follow the wind, Austin adds, whereas a pilot can steer and circle a glider.

Balloon flights from McMurdo Station, which lies at 78 degrees South, revealed severe ozone depletion in October 1991 at altitudes between 12 and 20 kilometres, with a 93 per cent loss of ozone between 17 and 18 kilometres (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 19, p 1105).

It has remained largely a mystery, because conventional balloons and planes can not reach this height, and satellites can not orbit Earth at a low enough altitude to perform direct observations.