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June 22, 2020

Airborne 06.22.20: High-Alt Balloon, 4th Of July Flyover, False Drone Arrest

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Space Perspective has announced plans to fly passengers and research payloads to the edge of space with its Spaceship Neptune, a high-performance balloon and pressurized capsule. The human 'space flight' company plans to launch from the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, with the first un-crewed test flight scheduled in early 2021. Flown by a pilot, Neptune takes up to eight passengers called “Explorers” on a six-hour journey to the edge of space and safely back, where only 20 people have been before. It will carry people and research payloads on a two-hour gentle ascent above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere to 100,00

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SOFIA’s Deployment to New Zealand Cancelled, New Flights to Resume

A Revised Flight Schedule Is Being Coordinated To Focus On High-Priority Celestial Targets

The leadership of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, reached a decision that the observatory’s annual deployment to Christchurch, New Zealand, is not feasible this year, given ongoing concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. A revised flight schedule is being coordinated to focus on high-priority celestial targets that can be studied from SOFIA’s base at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California.