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that the new development is "a further step in the development of China's high-altitude balloon platform."The balloon deployed by the AIR researchers is capable of carrying tons of scientific instruments and experiments to the upper atmosphere.

CAS and AIR released little information regarding the number of scientific payloads, if any, that went up on the demonstration mission. In the CAS statement, however, the organization claimed the balloon is capable of sending large unmanned air vehicles and other experimental technologies into the near-space region of the stratosphere.During their test, the uninflated length of the balloon measured more than 100 meters. Once inflated, it measured 180,000 cubic meters.

NASA also sees great potential in the further development of high-altitude balloons, which already play an important role in weather and climate observations.prototype designed with the goal of eventually deploying scientific instruments in the clouds of Venus. The balloon has completed two successful test flights thus far and it could one day help scientists determine whether microbial alien life exists in Venus' upper atmosphere.

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