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Prior to launch, the BARREL team works on the payload from the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...
NASA's Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths...
The BARREL team inflates their second balloon just before its launch on Aug. 13, 2015, from Kiruna, Sweden. The day...
Meteorological Data Specialist Michael Boyer prepares weather balloons for release at the Cape Canaveral Space Force...
Weather balloons are lined up prior to release at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) Weather Station in...
Meteorological Data Specialist Michael Boyer releases a weather balloon at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station...
Meteorological Data Specialist Michael Boyer prepares weather balloons for release at the Cape Canaveral Space Force...
Meteorological Data Specialist Michael Boyer prepares weather balloons for release at the Cape Canaveral Space Force...
Meteorological Data Specialist Michael Boyer prepares to release a weather balloon at the Cape Canaveral Space Force...
Meteorological Data Specialist Michael Boyer releases a weather balloon at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station...
Meteorological Data Specialist Michael Boyer releases a weather balloon at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station...
A BARREL payload sits on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL team is at Esrange...
A BARREL team member watches as one of their payloads launches from Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016....
The BARREL team prepares to launch their third payload from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, on Aug. 21,...
BARREL team members lift up the instrument box below an inflated BARREL balloon to help with launch. Credit:...
The BARREL team at the South African research station, SANAE IV, lay out the 130-foot-long balloon on the ground to...
The Halley station team members assisted the BARREL team with the launches. Here, one gives the thumbs up to start...
Four reindeer walk past the BARREL payload on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL...
A BARREL payload sits on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL team is at Esrange...
A member of the BARREL team prepares a payload for launch from Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016. Throughout...
A BARREL balloon launches up into the sky, destined to float on the circumpolar winds around the South Pole for up...
Members of the BARREL team in Antarctica jump up and down in what they call the Low Wind Dance as they hope for the...
Getting fuller! A BARREL balloon is filled with helium during the 2013-2014 mission campaign in Antarctica. Credit:...
A team member from South African research station, SANAE IV, helps unwrap the balloon from its protective yellow...