Articles of the month

  • 13 March 2017

    Zero2Infinity, Bloostar and the return of the "Rockoons"

    El Arenosillo, Spain.- Zero2Infinity, a Barcelona based spanish company which aims to offer cheap access to near space and also to launch satellites at low costs using balloons, performed on March 1st, a succesful test of it's own rocket from an aerostat floating over the Atlantic Ocean.

    The balloon which was launched from a ship sailing offshore the Andalucia coast carried the "Bloostar" rocket to an altitude of 26 kilometers, where it was fired from the National Institute of Aerospace Technology's (INTA) facility in El Arenosillo, Spain...