aerostation

Aerial navigation; the act or science of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

A flight or expedition by hot-air balloon.

The balloon ascension advertised by Mr. Wise, the celebrated aeronaut of forty aerostations, took place in this borough on Saturday last.

As he notes, the spread of aerostations testifies to the effectiveness of Enlightenment networks at disseminating information: Most of the early aeronauts had never seen an ascension with their own eyes, but they built their balloons based on the descriptions given by their written sources (19).

The science of weighing air; aerostatics.

A floating or elevated station.

It is expected that an analysis of the fist year's records will lead to a clear decision as to whether or not to engage in the second phase of the research, which will comprise a re-arrangement of the survey stations on a finer geographical pattern and the collection of design data for aerostations.

Seaborne aerostations could be anchored in the strong windbelts which exist in many areas of the world, for example, off the north-east part of the U.S.A.