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Articles about small, persistent weather balloons used for atmospheric science and long-duration flight tracking.

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Making Line Of Sight Work 12 Kilometers Up

ยท 10 min read
Nik Hawks
IoT Educator & Builder

Let's Talk LoRa For Atmospheric Scienceโ€‹

In the past few decades, citizen scientists have stretched the limit of what's possible for the average person to collect when it comes to atmospheric data.

One of the ways this has happened is through pico balloons. Unlike the much larger, up-n-burst weather balloons that are released every day by various weather predicting organizations, pico balloons are smaller, far more persistent, and much cheaper.