Balloon in example sentence

And to do a capsule, there's an amazing amount of complexity that goes into it, and it weighed about 3,000 pounds, and to raise 3,000 pounds to an altitude of 135,000 feet, which was my target altitude, it would have taken a balloon that was 45 to 50 million cubic feet.

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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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