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Scientists Test Mobile Tower-Based GPS Signals That Could Help Pilots in Emergency Situations
Scientists are developing a navigation system that uses mobile signals as an emergency backup for pilots when GPS systems fail. Tested with high-altitude weather balloons, the system detects signals from cell towers and satellites, providing crucial data for navigation. Although challenges remain, early results indicate its potential to revolutioni...
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Taiwan Spots Chinese Weather Balloon In Strait Month Before Election
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Friday that a Chinese weather balloon had crossed the Taiwan Strait median line on Thursday, about a month before Taiwan's presidential election.
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Watch: William Shakespeare's Portrait Sent To Space For 400th Anniversary
The portrait was sent into space in a weather balloon, with a camera and GPS tracker. The portrait was taken to Earth's upper atmosphere.
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US Ends Search For Debris Of Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon
Beijing insisted the device was for weather surveillance and had gone astray, while Washington described it as a sophisticated high-altitude spying vehicle.
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Crashed Weather Balloon Likely From China Found At Remote Island: Taiwan
Taiwan's military said today it had found the remains of a probable crashed weather balloon likely from China on a remote and strategically located island near the Chinese coast, amid a dispute between China
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A Sacking In China May Be Linked To Balloon Shot Down By US: Report
China replaced its national weather chief just after the US revealed the balloon was flying over its territory, fueling speculation that the move was connected to Beijing's claim it was a climate research vehicle.
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India Set To Replace Weather Balloons With Drones
India is set to deploy drones to gather atmospheric data that is currently collated by sending sensors through weather balloons released from at least 55 locations across the country twice every day.
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India May Soon Replace Weather Balloons Sensors With Drones to Collect Atmospheric Data
India may soon deploy drones to gather atmospheric data, a task currently done through weather balloons released from at least 55 locations across the country twice every day. The weather balloons and radiosondes have a disadvantage as they unretrievable once they drift afar from weather stations that release them in the atmosphere.
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DogeBonk Claims to Have Become the First Crypto in Space, Ahead of Elon Musk's DOGE-1 Rocket Mission
DogeBonk, a relatively new meme coin on the block, claims to have become the first meme coin launched in space, dethroning Elon Musk’s DOGE-1 rocket mission which is scheduled to launch Dogecoin to the moon in 2022.
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YouTuber Sends Dogecoin to Space on Weather Balloon as Tribute to Elon Musk
While many people are waiting for Elon Musk — who has repeatedly put his weight behind Dogecoin on social media — to send the meme currency to the Moon, a US-based YouTuber has actually tried to do something of that sort. On the tech billionaire's 50th birthday on June 28, Reid Williamson sent an actual Dogecoin to space with a weather balloon.
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World UFO Day 2020: Flying Objects And More
World UFO Day 2020: Theories about UFOs, first came to light after the Roswell incident was exposed. In July,1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed near Roswell in New Mexico. That created a wave of speculation about the crashed "flying disc". The US military later said that it was just a weather balloon. This incident was the beginn...
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How A Gun, String And A Weather Balloon Led A Man To Fake His Own Murder
The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department's first homicide investigation of 2018 opened in late January - rather early in the year, considering that Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is basically a live-in golf course of 50,000 people, where the annual murder count rarely cracks one.
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'First Protest In Space' Targets Trump With An Astronaut's Famous Words
On Wednesday, 56 years to the day after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, a Phoenix-based collective called the Autonomous Space Agency Network launched a weather balloon to about 90,000 feet. The balloon, Aphrodite 1, weighed a little over a pound and was inflated with 120 cubic feet of helium. Aphrodite 1's payload c...
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Weather Balloons Cause Alarm As Air India Pilot Informs Police
Pilot of an Air India flight spotted balloons in the sky over the suburban Juhu on Thursday morning, police said.
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$300 for a Balloon? Yes, But This Old One Tracks Down Storms
While all the modern advances are crucial tools for forecasting, weather balloons can do something all the rest cannot: measure the atmosphere from the surface to about 115,000 feet every second.
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Scientists Test Mobile Tower-Based GPS Signals That Could Help Pilots in Emergency Situations
Scientists are developing a navigation system that uses mobile signals as an emergency backup for pilots when GPS systems fail. Tested with high-altitude weather balloons, the system detects signals from cell towers and satellites, providing crucial data for navigation. Although challenges remain, early results indicate its potential to revolutioni...
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Taiwan Spots Chinese Weather Balloon In Strait Month Before Election
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Friday that a Chinese weather balloon had crossed the Taiwan Strait median line on Thursday, about a month before Taiwan's presidential election.
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Watch: William Shakespeare's Portrait Sent To Space For 400th Anniversary
The portrait was sent into space in a weather balloon, with a camera and GPS tracker. The portrait was taken to Earth's upper atmosphere.
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US Ends Search For Debris Of Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon
Beijing insisted the device was for weather surveillance and had gone astray, while Washington described it as a sophisticated high-altitude spying vehicle.
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Crashed Weather Balloon Likely From China Found At Remote Island: Taiwan
Taiwan's military said today it had found the remains of a probable crashed weather balloon likely from China on a remote and strategically located island near the Chinese coast, amid a dispute between China
-
A Sacking In China May Be Linked To Balloon Shot Down By US: Report
China replaced its national weather chief just after the US revealed the balloon was flying over its territory, fueling speculation that the move was connected to Beijing's claim it was a climate research vehicle.
-
India Set To Replace Weather Balloons With Drones
India is set to deploy drones to gather atmospheric data that is currently collated by sending sensors through weather balloons released from at least 55 locations across the country twice every day.
-
India May Soon Replace Weather Balloons Sensors With Drones to Collect Atmospheric Data
India may soon deploy drones to gather atmospheric data, a task currently done through weather balloons released from at least 55 locations across the country twice every day. The weather balloons and radiosondes have a disadvantage as they unretrievable once they drift afar from weather stations that release them in the atmosphere.
-
DogeBonk Claims to Have Become the First Crypto in Space, Ahead of Elon Musk's DOGE-1 Rocket Mission
DogeBonk, a relatively new meme coin on the block, claims to have become the first meme coin launched in space, dethroning Elon Musk’s DOGE-1 rocket mission which is scheduled to launch Dogecoin to the moon in 2022.
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YouTuber Sends Dogecoin to Space on Weather Balloon as Tribute to Elon Musk
While many people are waiting for Elon Musk — who has repeatedly put his weight behind Dogecoin on social media — to send the meme currency to the Moon, a US-based YouTuber has actually tried to do something of that sort. On the tech billionaire's 50th birthday on June 28, Reid Williamson sent an actual Dogecoin to space with a weather balloon.
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World UFO Day 2020: Flying Objects And More
World UFO Day 2020: Theories about UFOs, first came to light after the Roswell incident was exposed. In July,1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed near Roswell in New Mexico. That created a wave of speculation about the crashed "flying disc". The US military later said that it was just a weather balloon. This incident was the beginn...
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How A Gun, String And A Weather Balloon Led A Man To Fake His Own Murder
The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department's first homicide investigation of 2018 opened in late January - rather early in the year, considering that Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is basically a live-in golf course of 50,000 people, where the annual murder count rarely cracks one.
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'First Protest In Space' Targets Trump With An Astronaut's Famous Words
On Wednesday, 56 years to the day after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, a Phoenix-based collective called the Autonomous Space Agency Network launched a weather balloon to about 90,000 feet. The balloon, Aphrodite 1, weighed a little over a pound and was inflated with 120 cubic feet of helium. Aphrodite 1's payload c...
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Weather Balloons Cause Alarm As Air India Pilot Informs Police
Pilot of an Air India flight spotted balloons in the sky over the suburban Juhu on Thursday morning, police said.
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$300 for a Balloon? Yes, But This Old One Tracks Down Storms
While all the modern advances are crucial tools for forecasting, weather balloons can do something all the rest cannot: measure the atmosphere from the surface to about 115,000 feet every second.
