18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
...Earth’s upper atmosphere could diminish global warming by blocking sunlight, scientists at Harvard University are proposing a stratospheric balloon experiment to test just that. If given the go-ahead, small amounts of chalky dust will be dropped into...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
...lives without it Google’s Project Loon is designed to provide worldwide internet coverage using a fleet of stratospheric balloons. Each balloon will float in the stratosphere and provide internet access to the population in a large area below it. The...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... for conducting scientific experiments free from the constraints of gravity - free-fall towers, drops from a stratospheric balloon and sounding rockets as well as recoverable microgravity platforms and automatic satellites, from nanosatellites and...
