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by kirrent 3284 days ago
The Stanford Student Space Initiative's valbal is an interesting project where they add a lightweight set of ballast and a valve to a weather balloon so it can maintain an altitude. They're limited by power, the amount of ballast, and how much gas they can bleed but they can get flight times of days. https://stanfordssi.org/blog/ssi-52-breaks-world-record-agai...