Fall Program Kicks Off At Fort Sumner
NASA’s schedule of high-altitude balloon launches has commenced at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. For more than thirty years the NASA Balloon Program has provided high-altitude platforms for technological and scientific investigations that have yielded information fundamental to our understanding of Earth, the solar system, and the universe. The fall campaign will conduct launches from mid-August through mid-October. Eight balloon flights from NASA’s Fort Sumner balloon launch site in eastern New Mexico will transport 16 missions including experiments and technology demonstrations in heliophysics, astrophysics, and atmospheric research.
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