#aerostar — Public Fediverse posts
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NASA is participating in a collaborative effort to use high-altitude balloons to improve real-time communications among firefighters battling wildland fires.
During the first test of the system last August, the balloon after spending several days in wildfire areas in Idaho and Canada, finally landed in ....Iceland!
Full details and map: https://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/2024/BKR-20240804.htm
#Technology #NASA #Aerostar #Thunderhead #Balloon #Wildfires #NearSpace #RemoteSensing #Science
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While HBAL712 continues to wander off the southeastern Australian coast, Aerostar launched another Thunderhead, HBAL 713, from Dangel Airfield near Hurley (SD) yesterday morning.
HBAL 712 tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a26f79
HBAL 713 tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a26454
Off the grid there are three more balloons: HBAL 676 and HBAL 684 over the Pacific Ocean and HBAL 711 over the Atlantic Ocean.
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Research #Technology #Stratospheric #Aerostar
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Aerostar established a new record with one of their Thunderhead balloons being aloft for 200 days and counting.
Mission HBAL676 launched on March 28 from the firm's winter Lodge in Santa Fe County, is still floating 60 kft above the Pacific Ocean.
The previous record was 156 days aloft.
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Astrodon #Space #Stratospheric #Aerostar #Thunderhead
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Yesterday, October 9th, Aerostar performed another launch of a Thunderhead balloon.
On a first for the company, the balloon was launched from the Beecroft Weapons Range in New South Wales, Australia.
The site is administered by the Australian Defence Force for use as a live-firing range.
Real-time tracking: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N256TH
#Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Military #Research #Technology #Space #Stratospheric #Thunderhead #Aerostar #BeecroftWeaponsRange
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Aerostar launched today from TCOM's Manufacturing & Flight Test Facility located in Elizabeth City (NC) a #Thunderhead balloon.
The craft with callsign #HBAL710 is floating now over the Atlantic Ocean at 60.000 ft.
This is the first time that the Sioux Falls-based firm launches from there.
Real-time tracking: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aceb11
#Aerostar #Ballooning #Balloon #NearSpace #Science #Research #Technology #Stratospheric
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HBAL684 made a guest apparition over the LA area yesterday. Today this balloon marked for the second time in a month a new endurance record for #Aerostar #Thunderhead balloons completing 156 days aloft since she was launched from #Indiantown (FL) on April 22.
However, the top current record for the company is held by HBAL676 launched from Santa Fe County (NM) on March 28. It has been 181 days in flight.
Both balloons are in flight off the Californian coast.
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Aerostar Int. announces the acquisition of Near Space Corp. a balloon firm based in Tillamook, Oregon. This secures for the South Dakota-based company an important launch infrastructure on the West Coast.
https://aerostar.com/news/aerostar-international-llc-announces-acquisition-of-near-space-corporation
#Balloon #Operations #Tillamook #NSC #NearSpace # UAV #Aerostar
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This morning, #NASA balloon mission 737NT transporting AESOP-Lite under an #Aerostar 60.000.000 cubic feet balloon was terminated at about 7:30 utc.
The #payload landed in the #Antarctic Plateau, 77 km NE of the natural formation called Dome #Argus
The #balloon experienced a progressive leak of helium after it was launched taking it from a maximum height of 156,000 ft to a minimum of 113,000 ft recorded minutes before its termination.
The total flight time was 46 hours.
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7 hours into the flight the AESOP-Lite mission 735NT is progressing very well.
The balloon is now floating at an impressive altitude of 156.000 ft!
Below we can see an image of the balloon taken by onboard cameras.