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NASA plans to send telescope into stratosphere, aboard stadium-sized balloon, to study cosmos – Firstpost
The ASTHROS will be stationed at a height of 1,30,000 feet, which is roughly four times higher than where commercial airliners fly, to study the far-infrared light, invisible to the human eye
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is gearing up to send a 2.5 meter (8.4 foot) telescope into the stratosphere aboard a balloon of the size of a football stadium. The ASTHROS (Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths) is scheduled to be launched in December of 2023 from Antarctica.
According to an article by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which will be managin…
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