A solar-powered aircraft has successfully completed its first high-altitude flight into the stratosphere. The unmanned Phasa-35 has the wingspan of an airliner and is intended for surveillance and ...

Sceye’s high altitude platform system is designed to float in the stratosphere and monitor methane leaks and other events.

The balloon required for the latest high-altitude record attempt is the biggest ... where there's only about 2% of the atmosphere left. That means that the lifting force is very weak and we ...

NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students soared into the stratosphere and captured our blue, round planet on cameras from an altitude of about 28 kilometers. Members of the astronomy ...

On the other hand, Webb's look farther into the near-infrared than before is sensitive to the higher-altitude layers of the atmosphere, around 15-30 miles (25-50 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud ...

Aircraft capable of flying in the stratosphere are attracting increasing interest in research and industry because of their extensive application potential. Acquiring comprehensive systems expertise ...

Analysis of the operation of vehicles in space naturally involves nonequilibrium processes due to the very low density of the atmosphere. Such high Knudsen ... efficient numerical method for modeling ...