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NASA Scientific Balloon Flies Along With Student-Built Payloads

.NASA's Scientific Balloon Course's fifth balloon goal of the 2024 autumn campaign flew Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location in Ft Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Student System) mission stayed in trip over 11 hours prior to it properly touched down. Healing is actually underway.HASP is a collaboration among the Louisiana Room Give Consortium, the Astrophysics Department of NASA's Scientific research Mission Directorate, and also the agency's Balloon Plan Office and also Columbia Scientific Balloon Amenities. The HASP platform supports up to 12 student-built hauls and also is actually made to flight examination compact satellites, models, and also other small practices. Given that 2006, HASP has actually interacted more than 1,600 undergraduate as well as college students associated with the missions.Staffs participating in the 2024 HASP 1.0 flight featured: College of North Florida and also University of North Dakota Arizona Condition College Louisiana Condition Educational Institution University of Colorado Rock College of the Canyons Ft Lewis College Capitol Building Technical College University of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) as well as McMaster College (Canada).A new, larger variation of the High-Altitude Student Platform (HASP 2.0) had its own engineering exam trip a few times prior. HASP 2.0 will have the ability to fit two times as lots of student experiments as HASP 1.0 as soon as functional in the upcoming year.The staying 3 balloon tours booked for the 2024 Fort Sumner fall initiative await next launch opportunities. To trail the goals, see NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location website for real-time updates on balloons heights and also general practitioners locations during air travel.For more information on NASA's Scientific Balloon Course, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.