Emerging Technologies Boost The High-Altitude Balloon Sector

Urban Sky remote-sensing balloon

Ballooning startups say a new industry is rising.

Credit: Urban Sky
Since 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers of France sent a sheep, a duck and a rooster aloft in their hot air balloon, humans have used the lighter-than-air devices to carry all sorts of payloads. Yet the type mostly drifted into obscurity with the dawn of aircraft in the 20th century. That is...

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