Accenture’s report, which profiled World View’s business model, said high-altitude balloons “will certainly find a comfortable niche in the market in the coming years” as the commercial industry ...

The National Transportation Safety Board this week called upon the FAA to treat balloon pilots like all others by requiring them to possess a current medical certificate. Currently, balloon pilots are ...

World View Stratollites offer all the advantages of high-altitude balloons – low-cost, rapid deployability, and low-impact flight – with an innovative new development: the ability to fly a variety of ...

On Wednesday, the company's VISTA platform ascended nearly 25 km above Earth from Vijayawada as part of "Mission SANA", ...

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The Federal Aviation Administration had resisted years of efforts to strengthen oversight of the hot-air balloon industry, creating a vacuum that allowed Alfred "Skip" Nichols to obtain and keep a ...

Near Space Corporation (NSC), one of seven suborbital flight providers selected to support the NASA Flight Opportunities Program, is proud to announce the creation of the first commercial high ...