Comments on: World View picks first research payloads for its high-altitude balloons http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/01/world-view-picks-first-research-payloads-for-its-high-altitude-balloons/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Dick Eagleson http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/01/world-view-picks-first-research-payloads-for-its-high-altitude-balloons/comment-page-1/#comment-1437959 Sat, 02 Aug 2014 06:22:54 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2574#comment-1437959 Not a pure spaceship, certainly, but I’d be inclined to grant partial credit. It will apparently fly roughly 36% of the way to the Von Karman Line. In terms of the Earth’s atmosphere, it will fly above 99% or more of it. Not space, but certainly “space-adjacent.”

]]> By: Trogdor http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/01/world-view-picks-first-research-payloads-for-its-high-altitude-balloons/comment-page-1/#comment-1437183 Sat, 02 Aug 2014 02:39:34 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2574#comment-1437183 I have a hard time calling it a spaceship. Useful? Sure. Impressive? Yeah. Innovative? You betcha. Disruptive? Definitely.

… but not a spaceship.

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