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NASA Scientific Balloon Team Hopes to Break Flight Duration Record with New Zealand Launch
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After years of tests and development, NASA’s Balloon Program team is on the cusp of expanding the envelope in high-altitude, heavy-lift ballooning with its super pressure balloon (SPB) technology. NASA’s scientific balloon experts are in Wanaka, New Zealand, prepping for the fourth flight of an 18.8 million-cubic-foot (532,000 cubic-meter) balloon, with the ambitious goal of achieving an ultra-long-duration flight of up to 100 days at mid-latitudes.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineNASA Scientific Balloon Team Hopes to Break Flight Duration Record with New Zealand Launch. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000400.
