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2. High-altitude balloon - Wikipedia

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   High-altitude balloons or stratostats are usually uncrewed balloons typically filled with helium or hydrogen and released into the stratosphere, generally attaining between 18 and 37 km (11 and 23 mi; 59,000 and 121,000 ft) above sea level. In 2013, a balloon named BS 13-08 reached a record altitude of 53.7 km (33.4 mi; 176,000 ft). [1]

3. Tethered Aerostat Radar System - Wikipedia

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   The second site was built at Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 1986. [3] Before 1992, three agencies operated the TARS network: the Air Force , U.S. Customs Service and U.S. Coast Guard . The overall responsibility for this program fell to Customs and the Coast Guard, until the US Congress in 1991 and 1992 transferred management to the US Department of ...

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. Customers of the ...

5. Balloon - Wikipedia

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   Balloons are often deliberately released, creating a so-called balloon rocket. Balloon rockets work because the elastic balloons contract on the air within them, and so when the mouth of the balloon is opened, the gas within the balloon is expelled out, and due to Newton's third law of motion, the balloon is propelled forward. This is the same ...

6. Barrage Balloon Organisations of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force

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   4 Flights of 8 balloons. (52 balloons (12 Water-borne) in Aug 1940) Birkenhead. No. 920 Balloon Squadron AAF: Jan 1939: Dec 1943: 4 Flights of 8 balloons (A & B Flights later 12 balloons each, C & D retained 8 each) Derry: No. 921 (West Lancashire) Balloon Squadron AAF: Jan 1939: 20 Feb 1943: 3 Flights of 8 balloons (48 balloons in Aug 1940 ...

7. Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta - Wikipedia

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   The Balloon Fiesta grew each year for decades, and today is the largest balloon convention in the world. The number of registered balloons reached a peak of 1,019 in 2000, prompting the Balloon Fiesta Board to limit the number to 750 starting in 2001, [4] citing a desire for "quality over quantity". The limit was changed to 600 in 2009 ...

8. Balloon catheter - Wikipedia

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   A balloon catheter is a type of "soft" catheter with an inflatable "balloon" at its tip which is used during a catheterization procedure to enlarge a narrow opening or passage within the body. The deflated balloon catheter is positioned, then inflated to perform the necessary procedure, and deflated again in order to be removed.

9. RAF Balloon Command - Wikipedia

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   Balloon Command was the Royal Air Force command which was responsible for controlling all the United Kingdom-based barrage balloon units during the Second World War.