NASA’s giant super pressure balloon, carrying the HIWIND experiment, is racing across the Pacific after launching from New ...

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

High-altitude balloon flights Gulf said to be showing ... The ability to launch from land or a ship expands our launch capability,” he said. The company’s CEO Michael Savage told the Skift ...

Languages: English. The National Weather Service (NWS) on Thursday announced further reduction in its schedule of weather balloon launches—a change that is triggering concern among ...

Bay St. FILE - A National Weather Service weather balloon sits ready for launch in the Upper Air Inflation Building at the National Weather Service, April 27, 2006, in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo ...

The weather balloons make such a difference in the forecast models that when severe weather is a possibility, some facilities will launch an additional weather balloon between their normal launch ...

In fact, the Storm Prediction Center and National Hurricane Center will request special/additional balloon launches ahead of highly impactful events, which emphasizes their value. It's not just ...

With cuts at NOAA and the National Weather Service in recent weeks, the NWS cut weather balloon launches nationwide because of staffing. The NWS launches weather balloons at over 90 sites across ...

There’s currently no timeline on when weather balloon launches will return to normal. Roman Battaglia is a reporter with Jefferson Public Radio. This story comes to you from the Northwest News ...