Launching a weather balloon can be intimidating as there are a lot of details to consider and regulations to follow to allow for safe operations and a successful mission. I have trained hundreds of educators and aerospace professionals to launch their own weather...
I have launched over 100 weather balloons all over the United States. One of the factors I have noticed for how long the weather balloon stays in the air is related to how much lifting gas is used compared to the payload weight being launched; this also leads to the...
Just how high can weather balloons go before it pops? This is a popular question we hear daily and it’s a great one too. In the previous blog, “4 Weather Balloon Questions You May Not Know The Answer To” and “Weather Balloon Facts”, we introduced why...
The weather balloon might be seen as an old-school technology, but with today’s modern electronics, rocket scientists only dream of the low-cost capabilities that these balloons have that can provide images of the world from above. I have launched over 100 of...
Launching a weather balloon is an exciting time for students. As they work in groups to design an experiment and hypothesize about the effects near space will have on that experiment, certain questions are bound to come up. In past blog posts, we’ve tackled questions...
This summer teachers and students across the United States had the opportunity to witness an eclipse of the Sun. If you were lucky enough to be in the path of totality, which stretched from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina, then you had the chance to...
