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NASA image captured December 25, 2011 A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. The balloon,...
NASA image captured December 25, 2011 A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. The balloon,...
Surging to take advantage of near-perfect launch conditions, NASA’s Scientific Balloon Team launched two balloons...
Cosmic rays and the chemicals and atoms that make up the interstellar space between stars are the focus of this...
The Scientific balloon eclipses the sun as it fills with helium, and the High Altitude Student Platform awaits...
This is EXCITE’s moment of release. On August 31, 2024, the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) team...
It takes around an hour to fill a 39-million-cubic-foot scientific balloon with helium. The EXCITE telescope is...
After years of tests and development, NASA’s Balloon Program team is on the cusp of expanding the envelope in...
After years of tests and development, NASA’s Balloon Program team is on the cusp of expanding the envelope in...
NASA Goddard astrophysicist Kyle Helson looks at EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) as it dangles from...
NASA Goddard astrophysicist Kyle Helson looks at EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) as it dangles from...
Filling a 4 million cubic foot balloon with Helium for the High Altitude Student Platform 2.0 Mission (HASP).
Crews from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility prepare the balloon for flight for the 2014 NASA Low-Density...
NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, at 11:35 a.m. Tuesday,...
On August 31, 2024, the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) team conducted a test flight of their...
This image shows the curvature of the Earth from 130,000 feet. It was taken remotely by a camera on EXCITE. The red...
Matthew Mullin and Bobby Meazell, Orbital ATK/Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility technicians, conduct...
An historic delivery to the Moon’s South Pole, a record-breaking scientific balloon flight, and an asteroid...
The BARREL team inflates the balloon to launch their fifth scientific payload from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...
Aviators, skydivers and other altitude-seeking enthusiasts flying out of Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, are double...
The fourth BARREL balloon of this campaign sits on the launch pad shortly before it launched on Aug. 21, 2016. The...
A BARREL balloon inflates on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016. Throughout August 2016, the...
The first BARREL balloon is inflated just before its launch on Aug. 13, 2016, from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...
The third BARREL balloon floats towards the stratosphere on Aug. 21, 2016. This payload flew for nearly 30 hours,...