{"id":568640,"date":"2023-11-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=568640"},"modified":"2024-02-27T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:13:05","slug":"nasa-scientific-balloons-ready-for-flights-over-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/scientific-balloons\/nasa-scientific-balloons-ready-for-flights-over-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Scientific Balloons Ready for Flights Over Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"padding-top-5 padding-bottom-3 width-full maxw-full hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-article-intro\"><div class=\"width-full maxw-full article-header\"><div class=\"margin-bottom-2 width-full maxw-full\"><p class=\"label carbon-60 margin-0 margin-bottom-3 padding-0\">6 min read<\/p><h1 class=\"display-48 margin-bottom-2\">NASA Scientific Balloons Ready for Flights Over Antarctica<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Feb. 27, 2024 – Final Campaign Update<\/strong>: The GUSTO mission ended Feb. 26 at 6:24 EST, setting a new record for a NASA heavy-lift, long-duration balloon flight at float for 57 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes. The payload descended by parachute landing safely on the ground in Antarctica. Any recovery effort, while not required for mission success, will be coordinated through the U.S. National Science Foundation, including support from Antarctic programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AESOP-Lite mission ended Jan. 12 after 1 day, 22 hours, 14 minutes at float. The mission included a test flight of the 60 million cubic feet balloon design, which demonstrated successful launch, ascent, and initial float near the design altitude. After a day at float, the balloon began to lose altitude and the flight was safely terminated in a best possible location for future recovery. The mission officially set a new NASA altitude record for Antarctica of 157,551 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LAURA mission ended Dec. 26 and well exceeded mission requirements by remaining in flight for 15 days, 17 hours. The mission was safely ended before leaving the continent. Recovery was not requested for this payload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jan. 10, 2024<\/strong>: The Anti-Electron Sub-Orbital Payload (AESOP-Lite) long-duration balloon mission launched from McMurdo, Antarctica, Jan. 10, at 3:38 p.m. local time (Jan. 9, 10:38 p.m. EST). AESOP-Lite and a piggyback mission, Antarctic Infrasound Hand Launch (ANIHALA), are flying on the 60 Million Cubic Feet Balloon (60 MCF) test flight. The balloon and payload are circling the continent at nearly 144,000 feet. This completes the Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign\u2019s launch lineup for this season. Track missions still in flight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csbf.nasa.gov\/antarctica\/payloads.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dec. 31, 2023:<\/strong> The Galactic\/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) mission successfully launched from Antarctica Dec. 31 at 1930 NZT in excellent weather conditions. The scientific balloon is floating 128,000 feet above Earth\u2019s surface. The mission can be tracked in real-time on NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csbf.nasa.gov\/map\/balloon8\/flight736N.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dec. 11, 2023:<\/strong> NASA\u2019s Scientific Balloon Program successfully launched the first balloon mission of its Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign with the Long durAtion evalUation solaR hand LAunch (LAURA). The balloon took flight Dec. 11 at 1200 NZT from the Long Duration Balloon Camp near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. LAURA, which has reached a float altitude of more than 117,000 feet over the icy continent, can be tracked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csbf.nasa.gov\/antarctica\/payloads.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A scientific balloon being prepared for launch on a snowy landscape. The balloon is a clear plastic in the shape of an upside down tear drop. To the right is a large crane holding a square payload. The ground is completely covered in snow, and a snow-covered mountain is seen in the distance. The sky is bright blue with wispy clouds.\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 20% 55%; object-position: 20% 55%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg 4032w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=1536,1152 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=2048,1536 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=400,300 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=600,450 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=900,675 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=1200,900 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloons-mcmurdo.jpeg?resize=2000,1500 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">A scientific balloon payload is being prepared for launch in McMurdo Station, Antarctica. <\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>NASA kicks off its annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign around Dec. 1, which includes three scientific balloon flights planned for launch from the long-duration balloon (LDB) Camp near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/geo\/opp\/support\/mcmurdo.jsp\" rel=\"noopener\">McMurdo Station, Antarctica<\/a>. NASA\u2019s stadium-sized, zero-pressure balloons will support a total of five missions on the long-duration flights with one mission vying to break NASA\u2019s heavy-lift, long-duration balloon flight record, which stands at 55 days, 1 hour, and 34 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe annual Antarctic long-duration balloon campaign is the program\u2019s flagship event for long-duration missions,\u201d said Andrew Hamilton, acting chief of NASA\u2019s Balloon Program Office (BPO). \u201cThe environment and stratospheric wind conditions provide a unique and valuable opportunity to fly missions in a near-space environment for days or weeks at a time. The BPO team is excited to provide support to all our missions this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Headlining this year\u2019s campaign is the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/gusto\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Galactic\/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) <\/a>mission. This Astrophysics mission is managed by NASA\u2019s Explorers Program Office at Goddard Space Flight Center. The mission is led by principal investigator Christopher Walker from the University of Arizona with support from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. GUSTO will aim for 55-plus days in flight above the southernmost hemisphere\u2019s skies to map a large part of the Milky Way galaxy, including the galactic center, and the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud. The GUSTO telescope is equipped with very sensitive detectors for carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen emission lines. Measuring these emission lines will give the GUSTO team deep insight into the full lifecycle of the interstellar medium, the cosmic material found between stars. GUSTO\u2019s science observations will be performed from Antarctica to allow for enough observation time aloft, access to astronomical objects, and solar power provided by the austral summer in the polar region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional missions set to fly during the Antarctic LDB campaign include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anti-Electron Sub-Orbital Payload (AESOP-Lite):<\/strong> The mission, led by a team from the University of Delaware and University of California Santa Cruz, will measure cosmic-ray electrons and positrons. These electron measurements will be compared to Voyager I and II, which reached interstellar space and have been measuring cosmic ray electrons since 2012 and 2018, respectively. AESOP-Lite will fly on a <strong>60 million cubic feet balloon<\/strong>, a test flight set to qualify the balloon for reaching altitudes greater than 150,000 feet, which is higher than NASA\u2019s current stratospheric inventory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Long durAtion evalUation solaR hand LAunch (LAURA):<\/strong> This engineering test flight, led by NASA\u2019s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, will utilize solar panels to extend the science capability of the hand launch platform from a few days in flight to long-duration flights. Hand-launched balloons are about 40 times smaller in volume than the heavy-lift balloons and have limited time aloft due to the amount and weight of batteries used for powering the science and balloon instruments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anihala (Antarctic Infrasound Hand Launch)<\/strong>: This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/scientificballoons\/balloons-glossary\/\">piggyback payload<\/a> on the AESOP-Lite launch, a cooperative mission between the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Sandia National Lab, aims to measure natural background sound in the stratosphere over a continent where human-generated sound is largely absent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Zero-pressure balloons feature open ducts that allow gas to escape and prevent an increase in pressure from inside the balloon. Gas expansion occurs as it heats during the balloon\u2019s rise above Earth\u2019s surface or by temperature increases from a rising Sun. These balloons, which typically have a shorter flight duration due to the loss of gas from the cycle of day to night, can only fly long-duration missions during the constant daylight of summer in polar regions, where the balloon stays in constant sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia manages the agency\u2019s scientific balloon flight program with 10 to 15 flights each year from launch sites worldwide. Peraton, which operates NASA\u2019s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) in Texas, provides mission planning, engineering services, and field operations for NASA\u2019s scientific balloon program. The CSBF team has launched more than 1,700 scientific balloons over some 40 years of operations. NASA\u2019s balloons are fabricated by Aerostar. The NASA Scientific Balloon Program is funded by the NASA Headquarters Science Mission Directorate Astrophysics Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For mission tracking, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csbf.nasa.gov\/antarctica\/payloads.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. 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Littleton<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grid-row margin-bottom-3\"><div class=\"grid-col-4\"><div class=\"subheading\">Contact<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grid-col-8\"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\"><div>Olivia F. Littleton<\/div><div><a href=\"mailto:olivia.f.littleton@nasa.gov\">olivia.f.littleton@nasa.gov<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grid-row\"><div class=\"grid-col-4\"><div class=\"subheading\">Location<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grid-col-8\">Wallops Flight Facility<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-5 padding-right-4 margin-bottom-5 desktop:margin-bottom-0\"><div class=\"padding-top-3 border-top-1px border-color-carbon-black \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-2\"><h2 class=\"heading-14\">Related Terms<\/h2><\/div><ul class=\"article-tags\"><li class=\"article-tag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/scientific-balloons\/\">Scientific Balloons<\/a><\/li><li class=\"article-tag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/astrophysics\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Astrophysics Division<\/a><\/li><li class=\"article-tag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\/\">Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a><\/li><li class=\"article-tag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wallops\/\">Wallops Flight Facility<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"nasa-gb-align-full width-full maxw-full padding-x-3 padding-y-0 hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-related-articles\">\t\t<section class=\"hds-related-articles padding-x-0 padding-y-3 desktop:padding-top-7 desktop:padding-bottom-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 grid-row grid-container maxw-widescreen padding-0 text-align-left\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-4\"><h2 style=\"max-width: 100%;\" class=\"width-full w-full maxw-full\">Explore More<\/h2><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-row grid-container maxw-widescreen padding-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-4 margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0 desktop:padding-right-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/earth\/nasa-led-mission-to-map-air-pollution-over-both-u-s-coasts\/\" class=\"color-carbon-black\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-cover-wrapper cover-hover-zoom bg-carbon-black minh-mobile\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/8p1a5473.jpeg?w=300\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" style=\"transform: scale(1); 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