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In recent years, people have used balloons to carry items ranging from teddy bears to chicken sandwiches to the edge of outer space. Now, Florida-based startup Space Perspective has announced plans to do the same thing with paying human passengers.
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For many of us earthbound types, hot air ballooning can be quite intimidating. Italian aviation entrepreneur Leandro Corradini is trying to make it less so, with his relatively simple and compact FlyDOO Light Sport Balloon system.
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Project Loon is an audacious concept dreamt up in Google's secretive X lab to connect remote regions of the world through high-flying communications balloons. Now headed up by Google's parent company, Alphabet, the balloons have been green-lighted to take flight over Puerto Rico.
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World View had originally planned to start sending humans into the stratosphere in balloons in the year 2016. It has fallen a little short of that goal, but all is not lost as 2017 will become the year the private company did send a KFC chicken sandwich to the edge of space.
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ScienceResearchers are developing a system to predict the path and intensity of hurricanes by harvesting data from inside the storm itself.
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ScienceNASA Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) is edging closer towards the space agency's goal of 100-day-long flights, coming down to land on Saturday after 46 days in the air to set a new mid-latitude duration record for a balloon of its type.
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Earlier this year, it was revealed that Sri Lanka would become the first country in the world to receive universal Internet access via Google's high altitude balloons. Now, the firm has announced that Indonesia will be the next country in which Project Loon will take flight.
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World View came a step closer to carrying tourists to the edge of space as it completed a major milestone test flight last weekend of its one-tenth scale version of the Voyager craft.
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The government of the island nation of Sri Lanka has just announced a partnership with Google that will bring affordable high-speed internet access to every inch of the country using the company's Project Loon balloons.
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ScienceOctopi can rapidly accelerate by sucking in and then expelling water. An international team of scientists have now replicated that system in a soft-bodied miniature underwater vehicle, which could pave the way for very quickly-accelerating full-size submersibles.
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Consumer drones have limited battery life, they're noisy, and can be difficult to fly. Allsopp's Action Cam Skyshot Helikite, however, is claimed to have none of these problems. It's basically just a GoPro-carrying kytoon – a kite/balloon hybrid.
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Have you ever wondered how many helium-filled balloons it would take to lift you up and let you fly among the clouds? Extreme sports enthusiast Erik Roner recently found out. Roner attached 90 helium-filled balloons to a sun lounger and rose to 8,000 ft (2,438 m).
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