Disaster was narrowly averted as a hot air balloon attempted to land in a residential street in Bedford. Footage shows the aircraft just a couple of metres away from the rooftops of homes on Bower ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The stratospheric balloons fly higher than airplanes, allowing them to map large disaster areas faster and cheaper than planes or drones. Near Space Labs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. When disaster strikes, it’s often not the storm itself that ...

Near Space Labs, a Brooklyn, New York-based startup, invented "Swifts," or stratospheric, AI-enabled robotic cameras that fly on weather balloons. Space Labs is using Swifts to assess property risk, ...