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NASA to launch helium-filled, football stadium-sized balloon into space – techtoday19
NASA is planning to send a cutting-edge 8.4 foot telescope into the stratosphere carried by a helium-filled balloon the size of a football stadium.Expected to launch in December 2023 from Antarctica, the telescope, dubbed ASTHROS (short for Astrophysics Strat…
NASA is planning to send a cutting-edge 8.4 foot telescope into the stratosphere carried by a helium-filled balloon the size of a football stadium.Expected to launch in December 2023 from Antarctica, the telescope, dubbed ASTHROS (short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimetre-wavelengths), will spend about three weeks drifting on air currents roughly four times higher than commercial airliners fly, observing wavelengths of light that ar…
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