
Scientific Balloons - NASA
2025年1月30日 · Scientific Balloons. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility manages the agency’s Scientific Balloon Program with 10-15 flights on average each year from launch sites worldwide.
Scientific Balloons Overview - NASA
2024年10月21日 · Balloons have been used for decades to conduct scientific studies. They can be launched from locations across the globe and are a low-cost method to carry payloads with …
NASA - Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
2024年12月30日 · Up to 180 gores are used to make NASA's largest balloons. These standard, zero-pressure, balloons are open to the atmosphere at the bottom to equalize the internal …
Types of Scientific Balloons - NASA
2024年1月8日 · The two types of balloons currently used by the NASA Balloon Flight program are zero-pressure and super-pressure. Scientific balloons can lift up to 8,000 pound payloads! …
NASA - Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
2025年3月21日 · We provide the services of launching large (400 ft. dia), unmanned, high altitude (120,000 ft.), research balloons; tracking, and recovering the scientific experiments suspended …
Lift off! NASA’s Super Pressure Balloon Takes Flight from New …
2023年4月15日 · NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program successfully launched its football-stadium-sized, heavy-lift super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wānaka Airport, New Zealand, at 11:42 …
NASA Balloon Program Office Code 820 - Wallops Flight Facility
The NASA Balloon Program provides low-cost, quick response, near space access to NASA's science community for conducting cutting edge science investigations. This includes …
NASA Scientific Balloon Flights to Lift Off From Antarctica
2024年12月10日 · NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica’s icy expanse to kick off the annual Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon Campaign, where two balloon flights will …
NASA Scientific Balloon Takes Flight With Student-Built Payloads
2024年9月6日 · NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program’s fifth balloon mission of the 2024 fall campaign took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the agency’s Columbia Scientific Balloon …
NASA Super Pressure Balloons Return to New Zealand for Test …
2025年3月14日 · NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency’s super pressure balloon technology. …