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NASA’s annual fall Scientific Balloon Program is due to get underway this week, featuring 24 different scientific payloads across eight separate launches.

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 09, 2023 - A team in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, is preparing to fly a balloon-borne science instrument called ComPair, which will test new technologies for detecting gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light.

NASAs super pressure balloon, carrying the Super-BIT telescope, has landed back on Earth after circling the Southern Hemisphere five times.

NASA successfully completed a flight test of its super pressure balloon carrying the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) science mission at 9:27 a.m. EDT, Thursday, May 25, after some 39 days and 14 hours of flight.

The balloon completed a record five full circuits about the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes

Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2023 - NASA successfully completed a flight test of its super pressure balloon carrying the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) science mission at 9:27 a.m. EDT, Thursday, May 25, after som

NASA's Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) has concluded its globetrotting journey.

Washington DC (SPX) May 16, 2023 - After a successful launch and more than a day in flight, our second super pressure balloon (SPB) carrying EUSO-2 developed a leak, and flight controllers safely terminated the flight over the Pacifi

NASA had to ditch one of its huge high-altitude science balloons in the sea recently when it developed a fault 36 hours after launch.

Washington DC (SPX) May 01, 2023 - NASAs football-stadium-sized scientific super pressure balloon crossed the 169.24 east longitude line at about 11:32 p.m. EDT, April 25, officially completing its