Playing with a new gadget today. I'm gonna try and chase some #weatherballoons and snag a #radiosonde or two. #sondehub

Almost 2000 balloons are launched each day to collect weather data. Other balloon flights are for atmospheric research and astronomy. Sending a science instrument on a balloon mission can be a step toward qualifying it for spaceflight.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00482-7
#weatherballoons #UFOs #UAPs #scientificballooning

@dalfen Balloons do nothing but hover or float. Balloons pick a wind current by adjusting launch location and time. Then they just ride it. Winds are 50-100 kph up there. At 40 km high that means a #balloon is overhead for 25-50 min (40km/100kph).

Satellite is 250km high, zips by at 30,000 kph. So it's overhead for less than 0.5 min (250km/30000kph * 60min)

Check out Wikipedia on #WeatherBalloons and Low_Earth_orbit (LEO) scale diagram. Or ask #amateur #OSINT person.