EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The federal government has deployed a new aerostatic balloon to watch the U.S.-Mexico border at Nogales, Arizona, 24-7. Installation began late last month one ...

A superpressure balloon is a style of aerostatic balloon where the volume of the balloon is kept relatively constant in the face of changes in the temperature of the contained lifting gas.

SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (KVIA) -- U.S. Customs Border Protection El Paso Sector is planning to deploy an aerostatic balloon just west of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in September 2024 to ...

Scientific American is calling it NASA’s “most ambitious scientific balloon ever.” Launched last weekend from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, this 532,000 cubic meter aerostatic balloon uses ...

From their vantage points high above the South Pole, these aerostatic balloons can garner photons blocked by Earth’s atmosphere at a fraction of the cost of a full-fledged, space-based observatory.

UPDATE: NASA brought the super-pressure balloon down two days after launch because of a leak. The balloon landed on the Antarctic ice about 560 kilometres from McMurdo Station. Researchers intend ...

And a military ballooning unit was formed, called the French Aerostatic Corps. The Montgolfier brothers, the twelfth and fifteenth sons of a paper manufacturer, had started the balloon craze ...

It wasn't long after the first untethered balloon flight in 1783 that the aircraft were used for military observation purposes. The French Aerostatic Corps first used balloons for reconnaissance ...