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StratoCat is an independent source of historical data and current news on the development of stratospheric balloons for scientific research, aerospace and military applications, and commercial exploitation of near space.

Based on Buenos Aires, Argentina. Online since 2005.

I'm also the editor of a newsletter called "World Balloon News".

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StratoCat is an independent source of historical data and current news on the development of stratospheric balloons for scientific research, aerospace and military applications, and commercial exploitation of near space. Online since 2005. Based on Buenos Aires, Argentina

The website publishes a newsletter called "World Balloon News".

https://stratocat.com.ar


Snapshot of StratoCat main page. StratoCat is an independent source of historical data and current news on the development of stratospheric balloons for scientific research, aerospace and military applications, and commercial exploitation of near space. The website offers: - a list of all balloon launches ordered by year and by country/base from 1947 to these days; - comprehensive flight reports of many balloon missions containing description of the payloads, details of the flight, pictures, videos and links to external references; - articles with the stories that shaped scientific ballooning; - an ever growing Balloon Encyclopedia containing a brief overview of those individuals, organizations, programs and events that had contributed to some extent to the development of scientific ballooning; - and finally a section to remember every month important events and dates of scientific ballooning history.
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    The SuperBIT mission made it to the cover of Nature Astronomy Magazine this month.

    GAZING AT GALAXIES FROM THE EDGE OF SPACE

    "SuperBIT is a wide-field, diffraction-limited optical and near-UV imager of the sky that was designed to travel via the seasonal winds at an altitude of 33 km. Suspended from a scientific balloon rather than a crane, its April 2023 mission took in views of merging galaxy clusters, galaxies, and massive star winds from the stratosphere."

    https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/8/issues/2

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    A very rare sight, an Aerostar Thunderhead balloon floating 59.000 ft above the North Atlantic appeared briefly today on the ADS-B network while flying north of the Azores Islands.

    The balloon was launched on Aug. 15 from Hurley (SD).

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