The first super pressure balloon flight of NASA's New Zealand Balloon Campaign reached its float altitude after lifting off ...

A stadium sized balloon has successfully launched from Wānaka Airport - after several cancellations. The super-pressure NASA ...

T he National Weather Service (NWS) usually launches weather balloons or upper-air soundings, twice a day from 92 locations across the U.S., once in the morning and once at night, ...

The super-pressure balloon lifted off from Wānaka Airport and will now spend 100 days or more flying around the Southern ...

How much air does a car engine really use? To demonstrate this, I attached balloons to the exhaust of my Honda S2000. The ...

At least 11 National Weather Service offices have seen their twice-daily balloon launches to collect weather data suspended or reduced.

The National Weather Service is down more than a dozen weather balloon launch sites since late March due to budget and staffing cuts, meaning less information f ...

Upper air measurements are taken by a group of sensors called a radiosonde. A radiosonde is a very small instrument package that is suspended below a balloon inflated with hydrogen or helium. These ...

NASA has launched a giant super-pressure balloon from Wānaka Airport. Previous attempts were postponed because of weather ...