NASA 科学气球携带学生建造的载荷成功升空

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's fifth balloon mission of the 2024 fall campaign took flight on September 4, 2024, from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Student Platform) mission, a partnership among various institutions, remained in flight for over 11 hours before landing safely. This initiative supports student-built payloads and has engaged more than 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students since 2006.

The 2024 HASP 1.0 flight involved teams from several universities and colleges, showcasing the diverse participation in this program. Additionally, a new, larger version of the High-Altitude Student Platform (HASP 2.0) had its engineering test flight recently, with the capacity to accommodate twice as many student experiments as HASP 1.0 once operational in the next year.

The article also mentions that the remaining three balloon flights scheduled for the 2024 Fort Sumner fall campaign await launch opportunities. For real-time updates on balloons' altitudes and GPS locations during flight, interested individuals can visit NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility website.