The US Air Force (USAF) launched a US$439,000 (S$587,000) missile to take down a flying object that might prove to be something quite unremarkable: A US$12 (S$16) hobby balloon. A hobby group in the US, the Northern Illinois Balloon Brigade, was reported by The Guardian as saying that one of its pico balloons had gone 'missing in action' over Alaska...
A man launching a science balloon in San Diego, California, on Feb 13, as part of a climate science experiment in collaboration with the US Department of Energy and other groups.The US Air Force launched a US$439,000 missile to take down a flying object that might prove to be something quite unremarkable: A US$12 hobby balloon.
A pico balloon is equipped with trackers typically used to measure temperature, humidity, pressure or wind currents. However, as "no part of the object shot down... has been recovered", the group said it could not confirm definitively if it was indeed one of its balloons.was the second one to be felled, with US President Joe Biden issuing orders to take down three of them on consecutive days, from Feb 10.
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