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2. Non-rocket spacelaunch - Wikipedia

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   This makes balloons an expensive launch assist technique. Hydrogen could be used as it has the advantage of being cheaper and lighter than helium, but the disadvantage of also being highly flammable. Rockets launched from balloons, known as "rockoons", have been demonstrated, but, to date, only for suborbital ("sounding rocket") missions. The ...

3. List of balloon uses - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of uses of balloons. Balloon Drop toy balloons. tiny balloon catheter; balloon tamponade; Graphene balloons; small (volume of a few litres) gas balloon; Balloons as Decorations Balloon Drop; cluster ballooning; Talking balloon; toy balloon; water balloon; papier-mâché; balloon modelling; decoration; solar balloon

4. Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility - Wikipedia

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   The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF), established in 1961 and formerly known as the National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF), is a NASA facility responsible for providing launch, tracking and control, airspace coordination, telemetry and command systems, and recovery services for unmanned high-altitude balloons.

5. Balloon - Wikipedia

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   Decorators may use helium balloons to create balloon sculptures. Usually the round shape of the balloon restricts these to simple arches or walls, but on occasion more ambitious "sculptures" have been attempted. It is also common to use balloons as table decorations for celebratory events. Balloons can sometimes be modeled to form shapes of ...

6. Rockoon - Wikipedia

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   A Deacon rockoon just after shipboard launch. A rockoon at liftoff, August 2022. A rockoon (from rocket and balloon) is a sounding rocket that, rather than being lit immediately while still on the ground, is first carried into the upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and ignited.

7. Stratobowl - Wikipedia

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   In 1934 the NGS and Air Corps co-sponsored the Explorer, a manned high-altitude balloon capable of stratospheric flight. After the crash of the Soviet Osoaviakhim-1 that nevertheless set an altitude record of 72,178 feet (22,000 m), the sponsors redefined their primary objectives from record-setting to scientific research and tests of new navigation instruments. [1]