SpaceNewsChina’s ‘near space’ legal warfare
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/chinas-near-space-legal-warfare/
StratoCatFollowing the cessation of operations by the Space Perspective company, the mother ship MS VOYAGER is currently on its way to Louisiana, returning to the shipyard where it was adapted to operate with balloons.
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Merely a few months after the successful balloon test flight of the Neptune-Excelsior capsule, Space Perspective the Florida-based company aimed to offer touristic rides on balloons to near space faces shutdown amid financial troubles, furloughs, and allegations of mismanagement.
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Yesterday, Aerostar launched a Thunderhead balloon from its balloon launch facility near Hurley, South Dakota.
The craft is moving eastbound across the midwest states.
Real time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2680b
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NASA is participating in a collaborative effort to use high-altitude balloons to improve real-time communications among firefighters battling wildland fires.
During the first test of the system last August, the balloon after spending several days in wildfire areas in Idaho and Canada, finally landed in ....Iceland!
Full details and map: https://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/2024/BKR-20240804.htm
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Wanaka Airport announced the realization of the next NASA super-pressure balloon campaign from New Zealand in 2025.
One of the flights will carry #HIWINDS an experiment aimed to measure the daytime thermospheric winds by monitoring the neutral wind induced Doppler shift in the airglow emission.
The other flight will be a test for the super-pressure balloon itself (still under qualification) probably with a payload of opportunity.
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OhsinBarely know anything about scientific ballooning and associated R&D activities in India. They appear to regularly give presentations on TIFR Balloon Facility but not sure how to access these..
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp...44.3358B/abstract
https://app.cospar-assembly.org/2023/browser/presentation/33046
The BALMAN mission was successfully performed today. At 4:00 UTC, the balloon was launched from the observation point "Colibri" near the Ariane 6 launch pad of the Centre Spatial Guyanaise in Kourou.
After reaching an altitude of 17.8 km the mission was terminated and the balloon impacted in the Atlantic Ocean, 42 km NE of Kourou.
The total flight time was 3 hours.
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After some training performed at the Aire Sur L'Adour centre CNES is ready to test in flight for the first time the BALMAN steerable balloon.
The test will ake place at the Centre Spatial Guyanaise in French Guiana between Oct. 30 and Nov. 15.
https://centrespatialguyanais.cnes.fr/fr/campagne-balman-au-csg
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