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BBC takes Skyship across US for TV science experiment

Source: televisual.com By: Pippa Considine BBC Two is boarding a team of scientists onto the world’s largest airship – the Skyship 600 – for what is being billed as “one of television’s most ambitious experiments on the atmosphere.”

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Chiefs explore airship option

Source: Winnipeg Free Press By: Martin Cash Hope shipments to the north could be reality in 3 to 5 years.

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Navy Airship to Conduct Operations in the DC Metro Region

Source: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Navy’s sole Science & Technology research squadron, Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), will operate the MZ-3A lighter-than-air blimp in the regions surrounding Washington, D.C. beginning Sept. 21.

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Successful flight for INBLOON in Spain

Source: stratocat.com.ar Zero 2 Infinity (02I), a Spanish private aerospace firm that is developing balloon-based technologies to enable cost-efficient access to near-space and to promote space tourism in the near future, successfully performed another balloon launch.

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Japan sets new balloon altitude record: 53.7 kms

Source: stratocat.com.ar The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that they managed to break the current high altitude record for unmanned balloon flight, which stood unbeaten for eleven years.

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