.NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's 5th balloon goal of the 2024 fall project took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the firm's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fortress Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Student Platform) goal remained in air travel over 11 hrs prior to it properly touched down. Recovery is underway.HASP is actually a partnership among the Louisiana Room Give Range, the Astrophysics Branch of NASA's Scientific research Goal Directorate, and also the company's Balloon Plan Office and Columbia Scientific Balloon Location. The HASP system assists approximately 12 student-built payloads and also is actually developed to tour test compact satellites, prototypes, as well as various other little experiments. Due to the fact that 2006, HASP has actually interacted more than 1,600 undergraduate as well as college students associated with the missions.Staffs participating in the 2024 HASP 1.0 air travel featured: Educational institution of North Florida and Educational Institution of North Dakota Arizona State University Louisiana Condition College College of Colorado Stone College of the Canyons Fortress Lewis College Capitol Technical University College of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) as well as McMaster Educational Institution (Canada).A new, bigger model of the High-Altitude Trainee Platform (HASP 2.0) possessed its design test trip a handful of days prior. HASP 2.0 will certainly manage to accommodate twice as several trainee practices as HASP 1.0 once working in the next year.The continuing to be three balloon trips arranged for the 2024 Fortress Sumner drop initiative await upcoming launch options. To trail the objectives, check out NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location web site for real-time updates on balloons altitudes and also GPS places in the course of tour.To learn more on NASA's Scientific Balloon System, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.