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Scientist make new discovery, Space Satelites can now be launched from Earth using Nylon

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​ High-altitude balloons paved the way for satellites. Decades later, could they be poised to replace them? The near future: tourists peer excitedly out of portholes far above the Earth, entranced by the sight of the starry blackness above and the curved blue horizon below. However, this is not a spacecraft, but a ‘near-space balloon’. It was launched from Mongolia, not Houston. And the tourists are Chinese. Such balloons are a new ‘high frontier’. In 1958, Russia amazed the world by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. American hurriedly set up Nasa to compete in the space race and became the world’s pre-eminent space power. Satellites are vital in communications, weather monitoring, navigation and other areas. But 60 years after Sputnik high-altitude balloons are challenging them. Balloons provide a vantage point at 30 kilometres (18.7 miles) for communications or monitoring, much closer than satellites. They cost a fraction of the price and, unlike satellites, can easily

Scientist make new discovery, Space Satelites can now be launched from Earth using Nylon

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​ High-altitude balloons paved the way for satellites. Decades later, could they be poised to replace them? The near future: tourists peer excitedly out of portholes far above the Earth, entranced by the sight of the starry blackness above and the curved blue horizon below. However, this is not a spacecraft, but a ‘near-space balloon’. It was launched from Mongolia, not Houston. And the tourists are Chinese. Such balloons are a new ‘high frontier’. In 1958, Russia amazed the world by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. American hurriedly set up Nasa to compete in the space race and became the world’s pre-eminent space power. Satellites are vital in communications, weather monitoring, navigation and other areas. But 60 years after Sputnik high-altitude balloons are challenging them. Balloons provide a vantage point at 30 kilometres (18.7 miles) for communications or monitoring, much closer than satellites. They cost a fraction of the price and, unlike satellites, can easily