high-altitude balloon

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balloon
noun[C]
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/bəˈluːn/us
/bəˈluːn/
a small, thin rubber bag that you blow air into or fill with a light gas until it is round in shape, used for decoration, as a children's toy, or for other purposes such as medical treatment or scientific ...
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Humans began the physical exploration of space during the 20th century with the advent of high-altitudeballoonflights, followed by manned rocket launches.
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To the eyes of a civilian witness in the 1950s, ahigh-altitudeballoonrecovery with attendant dummies would have seemed very unusual.
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In 1896 made the first in a series of severalhigh-altitudeballoonascents.
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In 2012, the advanced engineering class launched and recovered ahigh-altitudeballoon.
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All the members of the council decide to pretend they are having a charityhigh-altitudeballoonrace, while they are actually escaping armageddon.
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Kittinger later made, and still holds, the world-record for the highest free-fall parachute jump from the gondola of ahigh-altitudeballoon.
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Numerous experiments are conducted through high-altitude balloons mounted with scientific equipment, which is used to measure environmental changes or to keep track of weather.
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The high-altitude balloons fly twice as high as airplanes, but below the range of satellites.
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These are absorbed by the atmosphere, requiring that observations are done by high-altitude balloons or space missions.
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Possible workarounds include placing mass drivers on high-altitude balloons or balloon-supported towers extending above the bulk of the atmosphere, using space fountains, or rotovators.
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Fowler developed improved methods for measuring cosmic rays, using high-altitude balloons and later jets, and investigated the radiation hazards of high-altitude supersonic flight.
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