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Brian Everstine
October 23, 2025
U.S. Army tests a high-altitude balloon. Credit: U.S. Army
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 so far the experiments have led to frustration, something the service wants to change. The…
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