Senators Budd & Kelly Introduce Bill To Improve Tracking Of High Altitude Balloons
March 16, 2023
March 16, 2023
WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release:
Senators Ted Budd (R-NC) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) have introduced the bipartisan Seeing Objects at Altitude Regularly (SOAR) Act.
The bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue new regulations to require that all high-altitude balloons operating 10,000 feet above sea level be equipped with a tracking system that will transmit the balloon's altitude, identi . . .
Senators Ted Budd (R-NC) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) have introduced the bipartisan Seeing Objects at Altitude Regularly (SOAR) Act.
The bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue new regulations to require that all high-altitude balloons operating 10,000 feet above sea level be equipped with a tracking system that will transmit the balloon's altitude, identi . . .