Rockoon

[3] Time magazine reported in 1959: "Van Allen's 'Rockoons' could not be fired in Iowa for fear that the spent rockets would strike an Iowan or his house."

Van Allen convinced the U.S. Coast Guard to let him fire his rockoons from the icebreaker Eastwind that was bound for Greenland.

On the theory that extreme cold at high altitude might have stopped the clockwork supposed to ignite the rockets, Van Allen heated cans of orange juice, snuggled them into the third Rockoon's gondola and wrapped the whole business in insulation.

[5] During July–October 1955 instrumented Loki I and Deacon rockets were successfully balloon launched (Rockoons) from shipboard off the coast of Greenland in cosmic-ray studies by The University of Iowa research group.

The Spanish company Zero2infinity plans to launch a toroid shaped rocket from a balloon called Bloostar in 2018[needs update] to carry micro satellites to low Earth orbit.

[13] The American company Deimos-One is developing an AI assisted concept to launch rockets and carry satellites to low Earth orbit.