This is only the second version of the design and can accommodate rockets with payloads of up to 150 kg. Although the balloon’s ascent through the atmosphere takes about an hour, the actual ...

The Spanish-headquartered firm unveiled the design of the 3.9-ton ... Mira said the balloon technology is inherently safer than rockets loaded with explosive fuels. It also produces no greenhouse ...

The Florida-based company today (July 27) unveiled the exterior design of its pressurized ... $50,000 per seat. Those balloon jaunts will be quite different than the rocket rides provided by ...

asked if the company could design a balloon that could serve as a launching platform. General Mills could, and did. Aeronutronic’s rocket, named Far Side, lacks the streamlined style of surface ...

Halo Space is a space-tourism company that uses helium balloons instead of rockets or jets ... Stephenson spoke about how his design firm constructed its own 1:1 scale model of the capsule ...

A space tourism company promising stratospheric balloon rides has unveiled the vehicle’s capsule design. Halo Space is building the balloon for zero-emission commercial flights to altitudes of ...

The difference in launch vehicles — Blue’s New Shepard rocket and Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane, versus Space Perspective’s balloon and ... head of Experience Design at Space Perspective ...

In the wide expanse of space exploration, most people imagine rockets in the sky ... test and qualify its super-pressure balloon technology, an intricate design intended to float at a constant ...

Space Perspective is developing a pressurized capsule suspended from a high-tech balloon that will take passengers ... approximately six hours, so the design team needed to incorporate an ...