Like all rockets, yours works because of thrust. That’s the force that moves the rocket. The air pushing out from the balloon gives thrust to move your rocket forward. Try to experiment with different ...

An astronomical telescope designed to complement the ageing Hubble Space Telescope lifted off from New Zealand’s south island on April 16 2023. But as a sphere the size of a football stadium rose ...

We foresee few technical, geographic or political barriers to the UK restarting a balloon program in parallel to its nascent rocket launches. Balloons are high enough Officially, space begins ...

NASA selected 10 student experiments from across the country to fly on a rocket mission June 7 from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. During the weeks leading up to the launch, stude… ...

NASA is looking for student teams to enter its TechRise Student Challenge, which tasks students in grades six through 12 with designing experiments to launch on a suborbital spaceflight.

The REXUS/BEXUS programme provides students with opportunities to conduct scientific and technical experiments on rockets and balloons under special atmospheric conditions. Experiments on a REXUS ...

Four student-designed experiments will launch on May 19 as payloads in a NASA helium weather balloon. The balloon will soar to the stratosphere, about 20 miles above Earth's surface, in NASA's ...

One of the first steps came during a weather balloon flight to test whether a quantum experiment's hardware could survive near-space conditions. News Today's news ...

The first experiments will be launched on a balloon, BEXUS 7, in September 2008. The first rocket experiments will be launched in March 2009 on the REXUS 5 and 6 sounding rockets.

For the first time, NASA-funded experiments have been sent up to the near-space frontier on a small-scale version of the balloon that could someday give tourists an astronaut's-eye view of the ...

Google has begun an experiment to beam the internet from giant balloons floated to near space. The tech giant has launched 'Project Loon' in New Zealand with around 30 supersized balloons ...