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Japanese company plans to launch space observation balloons
(ORDO NEWS) — A Japanese startup announced on Tuesday plans to launch commercial space surveillance balloon flights. The company’s CEO, Keisuke Iwaya, said passengers don’t have to be billionaires, undergo extensive training, or have the language skills needed to fly a rocket. “It’s safe, economical and kind to people,” Iwaya told reporters. “The idea is to make space tourism accessible to everyone.” Iwaya Giken, based in Sapporo in northern Japan,…
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Spy balloons and UFOs
(ORDO NEWS) — It looks like the United States and China are playing a game of balloons and rockets, with the UFO theme somewhere in between. The whole world is now talking about the spy balloon that made its way from China to the continental United States. In the end, after it flew over the country, the US military decided to shoot down the alleged spy balloon. They successfully completed…
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NASA launches six science balloons in New Mexico
(ORDO NEWS) — NASA‘s Science Balloon Program is in full swing. During the 2022 autumn campaign, 6 scientific, engineering and student flights will be carried out, which will carry out 17 different missions. The launch is scheduled from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, from mid-August to mid-October. One balloon is already on test flight with several different technological payloads. The scientists hope to launch the remaining five balls into the launch…
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Israeli Startup develops carbon capture balloons
(ORDO NEWS) — An Israeli company has joined the fight against global warming by looking to the upper atmosphere for inspiration, where it hopes to send a batch of balloons that will capture carbon dioxide for recycling. Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and industrial agriculture are the main cause of climate change. But it takes too much energy to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at standard…