The view from a Pegasus high-altitude balloon. Credit: Pegasus Aerospace A military technology from the French Revolution is finding new life on the modern AI-powered battlefield. From Russia’s war in ...

For the past three years, the U.S. Army has been experimenting with the use of high-altitude balloons and solar-powered fixed-wing aircraft to understand how to “operationalize the stratosphere,” but ...

High-altitude balloons (HABs) have become increasingly present in research for years as tools for remote sensing, communications, and atmospheric monitoring due to their unique advantages over ...