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Why Amazon has struggled to crack IndiaAmazon's India strategy is changing: under new leadership, the company is focusing on profitability over rapid growth. This shift comes as ...
Red Balloon launches India's first commercial near-space balloonOn Wednesday, the company's VISTA platform ascended nearly 25 km above Earth from Vijayawada as part of "Mission SANA", carrying payloads f...
Red Balloon Aerospace launches India's first indigenous super-pressure balloonRed Balloon Aerospace launched India's first indigenous super-pressure balloon, VISTA. This high-altitude balloon carried payloads from sev...
'India to become $40 billion space industry,' says Ram Mohan Naidu after launching country's first Super Pressure Balloon in VijayawadaIndia's first Super Pressure Balloon has been launched in Vijayawada. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu called it a landmark mo...
The Tonga Eruption injected water vapour into the stratosphere, temporarily altering global atmospheric chemistryA massive underwater volcano eruption near Tonga in 2022 sent a huge amount of water vapor into the stratosphere. This event, unlike typica...
Silicon Valley renegades pollute the sky to save the planetAs the perils of climate change become more extreme, interest in the idea, known as stratospheric solar geoengineering, is growing. Scienti...
Indian-American computer scientist Swati Varshney aims to break records with stratosphere jump in 2025Swati Varshney, an Indian-American computer scientist, is one of the three explorers on the Hera Rising project, which aims to send a woman...
Google parent Alphabet bets on lasers to deliver internet in remote areasThe project known as Taara is part of Alphabet's innovation lab called X, also nicknamed the "Moonshot Factory." It was initiated in 2016 a...
Independence Day 2022: Tiranga at ISS, Tiranga flutters at stratospheric heightsSee the Indian national flag
- Ozone hole smallest since 1988: Scientists
Washington, Nov 3 (IANS) A hole in the Earth's ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September due to warm air was the smallest this ...
- NASA balloons to study total solar eclipse
New York, July 28 (IANS) NASA is collaborating with student teams across the US to send balloons into the sky in one of the most unique and...
- NASA delays balloon launch due to poor weather
Washington, April 10 (IANS) NASA has postponed the third launch attempt of its super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wanaka, New Zealand, on Mo...
Why World Pie Eating Championship is making headlinesThe stunt is part of a tongue-in-cheek experiment to see if the pie's journey up to 1,00,000 ft changes the molecular structure, making it ...
North India may be impacting global climateNASA has detected a layer of tiny aerosol particles in the upper troposphere, just below the ozone layer -that forms over Asia during the s...
NASA super pressure balloon begins around-the-world journeyThe purpose of the flight is to test and validate the super pressure balloon technology with the goal of long-duration flight (over 100 day...
Sri Lanka to take 25% stake in Google Loon for high-speed InternetSri Lanka today said it would buy a 25 per cent stake in a joint venture with Google, to deliver a high-speed Internet service powered by b...
Antarctic ozone hole expands to record levels: NASAThe 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in recent years, scientists from NASA and NOAA have said.
NASA to find out whether bacteria can hitchhike their way to MarsA helium balloon carrying a special scientific experiment will launch to the edge of space from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility...
Solar Impulse Founder, Bertrand Piccard only carrying forward family traditionBelgian cartoonist Herge (Georges Prosper Remi) created the character Professor Calculus in the Tintin series inspired by Auguste.
Google may implement balloon Internet project in IndiaGoogle may implement its prestigious 'Project Loon', which is a balloon-mounted Internet access service, in various countries including Ind...