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NASA to send stadium-size balloon skyward to study the cosmos – techtoday19

NASA is getting read to launch a high-altitude balloon into the upper atmosphere. NASA NASA plans to send an 8.4-foot telescope high into the stratosphere aboard a football stadium-size balloon, the space agency said Thursday. Asthros (short for Astrophysics …

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NASA is getting read to launch a high-altitude balloon into the upper atmosphere.
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NASA plans to send an 8.4-foot telescope high into the stratosphere aboard a football stadium-size balloon, the space agency said Thursday. Asthros (short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths) will observe wavelengths of light not visible from the ground. It’s slated to launch in December 2023 from Antarctica, where it’ll drift on air…

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