European student teams are offered the chance to design and build experiments suitable for flight on balloons and sounding rockets to be launched from Esrange Space Center – Europe’s only land based ...

The ESA Education Office has today issued an announcement of opportunity for student experiments to be flown on two sounding rockets and one stratospheric balloon, to be launched from Kiruna in ...

To get things into orbit at the moment, you need a pretty big rocket. While companies like SpaceX are trying to bring down the cost of launching by making their rockets reusable, the technology is ...

For several years scientists from the University of Iowa have been launching rockets from high-flying balloons to study cosmic rays at great altitudes. The advantage is that the rocket avoids most of ...

NASA is calling on middle and high school students across the country to submit experiment ideas for a high-altitude balloon or rocket-powered lander test flight in the third TechRise Student ...

From live leeches to building model rockets, a lot happens in Joe Graber’s Michigan high school science class. The most recent project is a weather balloon experiment that could lead to a scavenger ...