Project is designed to allow research at more than 100,000 feet, as much as three times higher than commercial airliners fly. NASA tests super-high-altitude balloon - CNET X ...

In the 1960s, America explored space with rockets—but Project HARP tried a different approach: using a massive gun. This High Altitude Research Project aimed to reach orbit more cheaply.

Project HARP, or “High Altitude Research Project” tested a 16-inch (410 mm) supergun to gather data on the upper atmosphere for research on re-entry vehicles for spacecraft.

PIKES PEAK, Colo. — The U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, or USARIEM, held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its High Altitude Research Laboratory at Pikes Peak, Colorado, on ...

The final launches of the high-altitude balloon will be on the annual eclipse in Texas is on October 14, 2023, and the total solar eclipse in Arkansas on April 8, 2024.

The super pressure balloon carrying SuperBIT can maintain an altitude of 108,000 feet (higher than 99.2 percent of Earth’s atmosphere) while carrying the 3,500-pound payload of scientific ...

NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon. The annual NASA project p… ...

* Such balloons typically operate at 80,000-120,000 feet (24,000-37,000m), well above where commercial air traffic flies - airliners almost never fly higher than 40,000 feet.

High Altitude Flows Such high Knudsen number conditions give rise to important nonequilibrium effects affecting vehicle aerothermodynamics and rocket plume structure. The NGPDL projects in this area ...