NASA Successfully Launches Super Pressure Balloon
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NASA successfully launched Super pressure balloon from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand. A mission designed to run 100 or more days floating at 110,000 feet (33.5 km) about the globe in the southern hemisphere՚s mid-latitude band. While validating the super pressure balloon technology is the main flight objective, the International Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB) payload is flying as a mission of opportunity.
Highlights
- The EUSO-SPB is designed to detect high-energy cosmic rays originating from outside our galaxy as they penetrate the Earth՚s atmosphere
- These high-energy particles enter the atmosphere; they interact with nitrogen molecules in the air and create UV fluorescence light.
- The International Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a super pressure balloon (EUSO - SPB) payload is flying as a mission of opportunity
- Flying on the payload is a poppy in celebration of Anzac day, a national day of remembrance in New Zealand and Australia.
- The balloon travels around the Earth
- It may be visible from the ground particularly at sunrise and sunset in the southern hemisphere՚s mid - latitudes
- it՚s expected to circle the planet two or three times.
- NASA՚s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, provides
- Mission planning,
- Engineering services and field operations
- At a relatively low cost, NASA heavy-lift balloons have been critical launch vehicles for testing
About Super Pressure Balloon
- The balloon was developed together by NASA and Columbia Science Balloon Facility teams
- Super - pressure Balloons flow chart
- Material use in balloon
- Map showing the balloon՚s real-time location
- Average Float Altitude Variation for 9 day for Super pressure Ballon
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