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Background Measurements and Simulations of the ComPair Balloon Flight
Zachary Metzler, Nicholas Kirschner, Lucas Smith, Nicholas Cannady, Makoto Sasaki, Daniel Shy, Regina Caputo, Carolyn Kierans, Aleksey Bolotnikov, Thomas J. Caligiure, Gabriella A. Carini, A. Wilder Crosier, Jack Fried, Priyarshini Ghosh, Sean Griffin, J. Eric Grove, Elizabeth Hays, Sven Herrmann, Emily Kong, Iker Liceaga-Indart, Julie McEnery, John Mitchell, A. A. Moiseev, Lucas Parker, Jeremy Perkins, Bernard Phlip…

Background Measurements and Simulations of the ComPair Balloon Flight
ComPair, a prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO), completed a short-duration high-altitude balloon campaign on August 27, 2023 from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, USA. The goal of the balloon flight was the demonstration of ComPair as both a Compton and Pair telescope in flight, rejection of the charged particle background, and measurement of the background $γ$-ray spectrum. This analysis compares measurements from the balloon flight with Monte Carlo simulations to ben…

🪤 A California dairy tried to capture its methane, and it worked
#dairy

A California dairy tried to capture its methane, and it worked
A giant, balloon-like tarp stretches over a lagoon of manure on a Central Valley dairy farm, concealing a quiet but remarkable transformation. Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured and cleaned instead of released into the atmosphere.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ane Brun:
🎵 Balloon Ranger Anthem
#NowPlaying #AneBrun
https://anebrun.bandcamp.com/track/balloon-ranger-anthem-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/60v0NZk0WhTOQ6yXNv2m2d

If I had a balloon, I could float places. "Dinner at six? Love to! I'll float by."

Homan, who doesn't have a Senate-approved position and no formal authority over any agency, is a giant trial balloon, right?
Not being sarcastic.
I feel like that is his job: say something outrageous ("Of course we stop you for being brown!") and then see how it goes over, walk back what fails.
-- John Pfaff
htt…

Turns out North Korea doesn’t lie about everything, at least not the weather. Kim Jong Un upgraded their forecasting system, added real meteorologists to state TV, and pushed for accurate alerts to protect crops and people from floods and droughts.
Meanwhile, during Trump’s second presidency, Texas is underwater and the National Weather Service was struggling with staff cuts and balloon shortages. North Koreans got valid forecasts about their own country while Americans were stuck with…

same iconic balloon, what could go wrong

Completion of scientific balloon flight BS25-02 - Preliminary experiment (III-1) - toward a precise verification of #GeneralRelativity based on laser frequency transfer: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/004025.html

So some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ane Brun:
🎵 Balloon Ranger Anthem
#NowPlaying #AneBrun
https://anebrun.bandcamp.com/track/balloon-ranger-anthem-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/60v0NZk0WhTOQ6yXNv2m2d

"No matter how much you try to cut, it’s primarily a drop in tax revenues that is causing the deficit to balloon." <-- Big Beautiful Bogus :-)

learn 👇

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Fiona Apple:
🎵 Heavy Balloon
#FionaApple
https://open.spotify.com/track/2OQpQTRogZ1AhnUHJiT9Nb

SAMPLE -- Stratospheric Altitude Microbiology Probe for Life Existence -- A Method of Collection of Stratospheric Samples Using Balloon-Borne Payload System
Margarita Safonova, Bharat Chandra P, Binukumar G. Nair, Akshay Datey, Dipshikha Chakravortty, Ajin Prakash, Mahesh Babu, Shubham Ghatul, Shubhangi Jain, Rekhesh Mohan, Jayant Murthy
https://

SAMPLE -- Stratospheric Altitude Microbiology Probe for Life Existence -- A Method of Collection of Stratospheric Samples Using Balloon-Borne Payload System
The Earth possesses many environmental extremes that mimic conditions on extraterrestrial worlds. The stratosphere at 30-40 km altitude closely resembles the surface of Mars in terms of pressure, temperature, and radiation levels (UV, proton, and Galactic cosmic rays). While microbial life in the troposphere is well documented, the true upper limit of Earth's biosphere remains unclear. The stratosphere offers a promising environment to explore microbial survival in such extreme conditions. Desp…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Maximum Balloon & Theophilus London:
🎵 Groove Me (feat. Theophilus London)
#MaximumBalloon #TheophilusLondon
https://tminus321.bandcamp.com/track/maximum-balloon-feat-theophilus-london-groove-me-t-minus-321-remix

Koons on 11

Some impressions from the double #stratosphere balloon launch in Bochum, Germany, today - more pictures in the album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230589908466338

Great Observatories Maturation: a Review of NASA Astrophysics Development Through Suborbital Rocket and Balloon Programs
Drew M. Miles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07289

Great Observatories Maturation: a Review of NASA Astrophysics Development Through Suborbital Rocket and Balloon Programs
The NASA Great Observatories Maturation Program is a development plan to efficiently and effectively develop large, strategic astrophysics missions. Suborbital rocket and balloon programs have long been a key development tool for enabling large missions in NASA astrophysics. We review the significance of these suborbital missions in the preceding decades to demonstrate their contributions to the Great Observatories Maturation Program for the Habitable Worlds Observatory and beyond. We show that…

Prospects for PBR detection of KM3-230213A-like events
Angela V. Olinto (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Luis A. Anchordoqui (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Austin Cummings (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Johannes Eser (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Diksha Garg (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Claire Gu\'epin (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Tobias Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), John F. Krizmanic (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Thomas C. Paul (for the JEM-EUS…

Prospects for PBR detection of KM3-230213A-like events
POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) is a scaled-down version of the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) design, optimized to be flown as a payload on one of NASA's sub-orbital super pressure balloons circling the Earth above the southern oceans for a mission duration of more than 20 days. One of the main science objectives of PBR is to follow up astrophysical event alerts in search of neutrinos with very high energy ($10^8 \lesssim E_ν/{\rm GeV} \lesssim 10^{10}$). Of particular…

"A California dairy tried to capture its methane, and it worked"
#US #USA #America #Methane ´

A California dairy tried to capture its methane, and it worked
A giant, balloon-like tarp stretches over a lagoon of manure on a Central Valley dairy farm, concealing a quiet but remarkable transformation. Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured and cleaned instead of released into the atmosphere.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ane Brun:
🎵 Balloon Ranger Anthem
#NowPlaying #AneBrun
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ane Brun:
🎵 Balloon Ranger Anthem
#NowPlaying #AneBrun
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Ane Brun:
🎵 Balloon Ranger Anthem
#NowPlaying #AneBrun
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv