High Altitude
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Alan Eustace, has broken the 128,100-ft (39,045-m) high-altitude skydive record set by Felix Baumgartner in October, 2012. Jumping from a balloon at 135,890 ft (41,419 m) above Roswell, New Mexico, Eustace also set new world records for vertical speed and freefall distance.
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The solar-powered UAV previously known as the Qinetiq Zephyr, which is now part of the Airbus High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) programme and called the Airbus Zephyr, has continued it's record-breaking ways in its first civil flight in the skies over Dubai earlier this month.
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Riding on the colossal stratospheric air waves generated over mountains, the Perlan ll team plans to fly their glider to the edge of space and shatter all existing wing-borne sustained flight height records.
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A link has been made between the abnormal breathing patterns experienced while sleeping at altitudes higher than 2,500 m (8,200 ft) and the symptoms of altitude sickness, particularly headaches. The finding could lead to potential treatments to combat altitude sickness.
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Satellites may be very useful for communications, navigation and other applications, but they're expensive to build and launch. That's why Thales Alenia Space is developing the StratoBus, an airship that can be launched like a regular blimp, but that will be able to hover in the stratosphere.
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ScienceUK based New Wave Energy aims to put aerial power plants in the sky with unmanned energy harvesting drones. The aim is to produce 400 MW of power, with networks of thousands of drones that can harvest both solar and wind energy and transmit it wirelessly to receiving stations on the ground.
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World View Enterprises is making a foray into the fledgling space (or near-space) tourism sector that will see passengers take a balloon ride to an altitude of 30 km (18.6 mi) from where they will be treated to a spectacular view of the Earth.
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NASA has developed a world-first test facility to study turbofan icing at high altitudes.
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Two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft have flown in close formation at distances as close as 30 feet (9 m) for the first time as part of a DARPA program to give autonomous aircraft aerial refueling capabilities.
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Base jumper aims to break sound barrier in free-fall.
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A new record has been set for the highest airship flight, with JP Aerospace's Tandem twin-balloon airship reaching an altitude of 95,085 feet (28,982 meters).
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The Global Observer unmanned aircraft has taken to the skies for the first time using hydrogen-fueled propulsion.
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