COES students to launch high-altitude balloon experiment during eclipse
(World News Science)

A group of Louisiana Tech University engineering students and professors will travel to Carbondale, Illinois to launch a high-altitude balloon during the solar eclipse on August 21. The students have worked with Dr. Arden Moore, assistant professor of mechanical and nanosystems engineering at the Louisiana Tech Institute for Micromanufacturing (IfM) as part of the NASA Eclipse Ballooning Project. During the eclipse, the Louisiana Tech team will join 54 other teams from schools across the country in launching high-altitude balloons with electronic payloads formatted to take environmental measurements. Louisiana Tech payload high above the earth during a recent test...