Taistella Program

The Taistella Program was an early Espan space program by the New Brezonian Commonwealth which was responsible for the launch of the Taistella 1 and its successor probes during the late 2360's and early 2370's CC.
It was the first ever space program developed and executed by the Krenn. Its launches were primary conducted using balloons.
==History==
Across the ocean from the war torn Sona, the New Brezonian Commonwealth, concerned about their occupied homeland was experimenting with high altitude espionage balloons during the 2350’s, these balloons could then take pictures from high beyond the reach of Daravian defense's of their positions. While Daravia was deporting the last of the Ermans, the Brezonians were developing a primitive space program.
On Espa gravity was more intense than on earth, its atmosphere was also thicker making balloons much more cheaper and effective than rockets in early space flight, using the work of earlier scientists such as Mazou, the discovery of the parallax method in 2127 and the breaching of the sound barrier in 2343, by early 2366 CC the Brezonians were able to reach an altitude of 80 kilometers, marking the border of space.
On the 13 Hannijor 2368 the Brezonians, again using balloons launched the first artificial satellite into an orbit around Espa, the satellite which had been called the Taistella 1, the Brezian word for Traveler remained in orbit for 17 consecutive days, orbiting Espa a total of 518 times before burning up on the second of Friavor 2368 CC.
When publicized the even astonished the world, Brezonia had figured out how to get into space, other nations such as Ihan and the United Provinces of Sentri immediately ordered their own space agencies established, but Brezonia was in the lead, from 2369 to 2372 CC they launched 14 Taistella class satellites, the Taistella 9 reaching 953 km altitude and the Taistella 11 even orbiting for 59 days. The program was finished in 2374 CC with new funding being directed to manned space flight research.
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