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High-Flying Balloon Dispute Follows ‘World View’ Announcement
Web pages for proposed balloon flights from Paragon Space Development Corp.’s World View (top) and zero2infinity’s Inbloon (bottom).
The newly announced World View balloon flight concept shares a number of “striking” similarities to an older proposal for ‘near-space flight experience’ balloon rides, according to the head of the zero2infinity Inbloon project.
Both concepts are competing in the nascent high-altitude balloon market, which would see these craft fly high in the stratosphere with paying clients and/or payloads on board. Some of them would be paying tourists to look at the view, while others would be institutions looking to get above most of the Earth’s atmosphere for scientific and other purposes.
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© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2013. |
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Post tags: high-altitude balloon, inbloon, jane poynter, Jose Mariano Lopez Urdiales, paragon space development corp., world view, zero2infinity
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/105966/high-flying-balloon-dispute-follows-world-view-announcement/
