Following 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.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9132296

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On February 16, Aerostar announced that reached 300 days aloft with a Thunderhead balloon launched from Florida on April 22, 2024.

The firm is close to break the absolute record set by Loon with 312 days aloft

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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.

https://talkoftitusville.com/2025/01/17/space-perspective-shuts-down-amid-financial-troubles-furloughs-and-allegations-of-mismanagement/

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Villagers in Bidar, Karnataka, India, were surprised by the sudden land of a stratospheric balloon amidst homes.

The device aimed to study the earth's magnetic field, was launched on Friday, January 17th from TIFR's National Balloon Facility in Hyderabad.

https://www.indiatvnews.com/karnataka/karnataka-scientific-payload-attached-to-balloon-lands-in-tata-bidar-causes-panic-tifr-watch-2025-01-18-971910

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Stunning images of the journey of the Sunrise III telescope taken by IRIS-2 a video and imaging instrument built by a Spanish team of enthusiastic amateur astronomers, engineers, and technicians.

The balloon-borne telescope traveled from Sweden to Canada more than 6,500 km at an altitude of about 40 km in six days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWAjiNBPxo

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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.

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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.

https://go.nasa.gov/3UOcpcA

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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