On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger stood at the edge of his balloon's gondola, 19 and a half miles above the Earth's surface, and leapt out into the near vacuum of the stratosphere. Almost 14 ...

Designed for the stratosphere, this high-altitude platform system was made by Sceye to do work commonly performed by drones and satellites like Earth observation and providing internet access to ...

When satellites vaporise, they seed the stratosphere (the region of the atmosphere between 10km and 50km above Earth’s surface) with particles of constituent metals, including aluminium ...

The stratosphere is the atmospheric layer extending from 10 km to about 50 km in altitude above the Earth's surface. Below this is the troposphere, which is in contact with the oceans and ...

To this end, Loon used NOAA-provided wind data for the stratosphere (starting between 10 and 20 km altitude). Each balloon would be directed to a layer where the air current was headed in the ...