Stratoballoon

Stratoballoon, 3 days ago to random

Great news !

#SUNRISE balloon-borne Solar telescope is on Mastodon!

You can follow it at: @sunrise3

Many thanks to @schuh for the heads-up

Stratoballoon, 1 month ago to science

StratoCat is an independent source of historical data and current news on the development of stratospheric balloons for scientific research, aerospace and military applications, and commercial exploitation of near space. Online since 2005. Based on Buenos Aires, Argentina

The website publishes a newsletter called "World Balloon News".

https://stratocat.com.ar

#fedi22 #Ballooning #NearSpace #Science #STEM #Research #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space
#FollowFriday

Stratoballoon, 1 month ago to science

StratoCat is an independent source of historical data and current news on the development of stratospheric balloons for scientific research, aerospace and military applications, and commercial exploitation of near space. Online since 2005. Based on Buenos Aires, Argentina

The website publishes a newsletter called "World Balloon News".

https://stratocat.com.ar

#fedi22 #Ballooning #NearSpace #Science #STEM #Research #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Technology #Cosmology #Astrodon #Space
#FollowFriday

Stratoballoon, 2 months ago to Futurology

Launch of #CREPE experiment from Fleming Field (MN) on September 4, 1970.

The experiment consisted of 240 square feet of detectors housed in a 20 by 12-foot package. The detectors (plastic track, nuclear emulsion, & fast film Cernekov) were designed to record the intensity & direction of trans-iron primary cosmic rays in the stratosphere.

The balloon drifted for more than 347 hours before landing 20 miles west of Regina, Canada.

#BalloonImageOfTheDay
#Cosmicrays #Research #Science #History

The moment of the balloon release of the CREPE II (COSMIC RAY EMULSION PLASTIC EXPERIMENT) launched by Winzen Research Inc. from Fleming Field, South St. Paul, Minnesota on 9/4/1970 (Image: NASA)
The ascending balloon of the CREPE II (COSMIC RAY EMULSION PLASTIC EXPERIMENT) launched by Winzen Research Inc. from Fleming Field, South St. Paul, Minnesota on 9/4/1970 (Image: NASA)

Stratoballoon, 2 months ago to space

The GUSTO telescope landed a few hours ago some 300 miles South of Mawson Research Station.

The mission broke the duration record for zero-pressure balloons with a total flight time of a little more of 57 days.

In the last days the balloon performed vertical excursions of great amplitude reaching altitudes as low as 53.000 feet at night and returning back to 125.000 ft during the day.

As it landed on solid place w'll see if a recovery attempt is on the plans for next season.

#NASA #Balloon

Stratoballoon, 3 months ago to random

The SuperBIT mission made it to the cover of Nature Astronomy Magazine this month.

GAZING AT GALAXIES FROM THE EDGE OF SPACE

"SuperBIT is a wide-field, diffraction-limited optical and near-UV imager of the sky that was designed to travel via the seasonal winds at an altitude of 33 km. Suspended from a scientific balloon rather than a crane, its April 2023 mission took in views of merging galaxy clusters, galaxies, and massive star winds from the stratosphere."

https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/8/issues/2

Stratoballoon, 4 months ago to worldwithoutus

The #GUSTO #Telescope currently circling #Antarctica onboard a #NASA #balloon flying at 125.000 ft completed almost 16 days of flight and one and a half turns to the south pole.

So far, it has become the most successful flight of a balloon campaign marked by leaking balloons.

The mission aims to remain aloft for another 40 days before being carried away from the continent when the volar vortex disintegrates and finally sinks into the Ocean.

Live track: https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/map/balloon8/flight736N.htm

Stratoballoon, 4 months ago to space

The balloon launch of mission 736N carrying the #GUSTO (Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory) occurred at about 6:35 UTC on December 31, 2023.

Now the #balloon is slowly ascending crossing 70.000 ft.
Real-time tracking (updated every 15 minutes) is available at: https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/map/balloon8/flight736N.htm

On-board camera showing the ascent via Line-Of-Sight link while it is near McMurdo station: https://video.ibm.com/channel/nasa-csbf-ldsd

Images of the launch by Hayden Boyd and Corey Weber
#NASA

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Stratoballoon, 4 months ago to worldwithoutus

Now, operations are underway at #McMurdo station in #Antarctica for the launch of #GUSTO the 2nd. mission of the #NASA balloon campaign.

GUSTO stands for Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (ULDB for Ultralong-Duration Balloon) is a balloon-borne 0.9-meter far infrared reflector #telescope with a cryogenically-cooled camera, to map oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon lines in the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Follow operations live: https://video.ibm.com/channel/nasa-csbf-ldsd

Stratoballoon, 7 months ago to random

On October 14, 2023 Iwaya Inc. a balloon firm from Japan conducted a successful manned flight of their T9-III pressurized capsule to an altitude of 10.669 meters.

The pilot Akito Iwagawa (who is part of the R&D department of Iwaya) became the first person to reach such altitude in a sealed environment above the country.

The flight lasted for 141 minutes for a traveling distance of 73 kilometers from Minami to Homoto in central Hokkaido.

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000028.000088928.html

#Iwaya #Balloon #Hokkaido

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Stratoballoon, 7 months ago to random

Now underway at NASA's #balloon base in Ft. Sumner (NM) first launch attempt for #JPL-Remote.

JPL-Remote is a multi-instrumented upper atmosphere research experiment sponsored by NASA and run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California. The program started in the late 1970s as part of an initiative to measure key #chemical constituents' abundance and altitude distribution in the upper #atmosphere.

Live video feed of the launch operations for mission 734N: https://video.ibm.com/channel/nasa-educational

Stratoballoon, 7 months ago to soccer

Launch of a cosmic ray experiment on July 21, 1969 from the #soccer field of the #River Plate stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The stadium stands served as a virtual #windbreak to allow the balloon to be safely inflated & launched. Several balloon missions were performed there in 1969/70 by the Centro Nacional de Radiación Cósmica (CNRC) and the institution that succeeded it the Instituto de #Astronomia y #Fisica del Espacio (IAFE)

#BalloonImageOfTheDay

#CNRC #IAFE #Argentina #Ballooning

Balloon launched on July 21, 1969 from the soccer field of the River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Image from IAFE's collection.

Stratoballoon, 7 months ago to space

Two great pictures of the FIREBALL-2 balloon now flying above New Mexico west of #Clovis.

Images were taken by @mouserwilliams

#NASA #Balloon

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AkaSci, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Looks like Mars rover Perseverance abraded the flat rock it was looking at a few days ago. It then used the SHERLOC instrument to analyze the exposed rock patch.

SHERLOC, the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals uses cameras, spectrometers, and a UV laser to search for organics and minerals that have been altered by watery environments and maybe signs of past microbial life.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/sherloc/
#Perseverance #Mars
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Stratoballoon, 8 months ago to animals

As usual, Sasha wouldn't be understanding -or doesn't care- my priorities and deadlines.

#catsofmastodon #Caturday

Stratoballoon, 8 months ago to random

During more than 20 years of involvement in documenting the history of the stratospheric balloon field, I have built an interesting collection of thousands of historical images about the activity.

A couple of years ago, on my Twitter account, I started to share some of them daily using the hashtag #BalloonImageOfTheDay

Now that my definitive home will be Mastodon, tomorrow I will be resuming those posts, including context data on the circumstances surrounding each image

Hope you will enjoy

Stratoballoon, 9 months ago to random Spanish

A very close image of GUSTO (Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory) telescope being prepared at one of the hangers in the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Texas. GUSTO will fly under a super-pressure balloon in the austral summer 2023/2024 launch campaign from Antarctica.

Goal is to conduct a spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud to determine the composition energetics and dynamics of the Interstellar Medium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUSTO_(telescope)