Balloon in example sentence

CA: Did he tell you to jump, or he just said, "I'm out of here!" and ... RB: No, he told me jump, but once his weight had gone, the balloon just shot up to 12,000 feet and I ... CA: And you inspired an Ian McEwan novel I think with that.

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I was there to view something called a long-duration balloon flight, which basically takes telescopes and instruments all the way to the upper atmosphere, the upper stratosphere, 40 km up.

And that's where they do their experiments, and then the balloon, the payload, is brought down.

So you're using a balloon to carry something that is two tons all the way to an altitude of 40 km.

For instance, here they are laying down the balloon fabric behind, which is eventually going to be filled up with helium.

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