About the newsletter

World Balloon News (previously known as Weekly Balloon News) was born as an extension of a project called StratoCat

StratoCat is a website created by me, Luis E. Pacheco in 2005 to document the use of stratospheric balloons in scientific research.

In the almost 20 years it’s been online, it has become an independent source of historical data and current news on the development of stratospheric balloons for scientific research, aerospace and military applications, and commercial exploitation of near space.

As part of the project in 2022, I’ve started to publish this newsletter as a somewhat regular bulletin containing balloon-related news of what's going on in the field, some speculation (fancy term for "insider data" from sources I can’t reveal), historical images, and details about the new contents that week after week enriches StratoCat's historical heritage.

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