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Data Downloaded via Parachute from a NASA Super-Pressure Balloon

Published:2023-11-14 Issue:11 Volume:10 Page:960
ISSN:2226-4310
Container-title:Aerospace
language:en
Short-container-title:Aerospace

Author:

Sirks Ellen L.¹²^ORCID,Massey Richard¹^ORCID,Gill Ajay S.³^ORCID,Anderson Jason¹,Benton Steven J.⁴^ORCID,Brown Anthony M.¹^ORCID,Clark Paul¹^ORCID,English Joshua¹,Everett Spencer W.⁵^ORCID,Fraisse Aurelien A.⁴,Franco Hugo⁶,Hartley John W.⁷,Harvey David⁸^ORCID,Holder Bradley⁹,Hunter Andrew¹,Huff Eric M.⁵^ORCID,Hynous Andrew¹⁰,Jauzac Mathilde¹^ORCID,Jones William C.⁴^ORCID,Joyce Nikky¹,Kennedy Duncan¹,Lagattuta David¹^ORCID,Leung Jason S.-Y.³^ORCID,Li Lun⁴⁷^ORCID,Lishman Stephen¹,Luu Thuy Vy T.⁴,McCleary Jacqueline E.¹¹^ORCID,Nagy Johanna M.¹²^ORCID,Netterfield C. Barth³¹³,Paracha Emaad¹³^ORCID,Purcaru Robert¹⁴,Redmond Susan F.⁴^ORCID,Rhodes Jason D.⁵^ORCID,Robertson Andrew⁵^ORCID,Romualdez L. Javier⁷,Roth Sarah¹⁰^ORCID,Salter Robert⁶,Schmoll Jürgen¹^ORCID,Shaaban Mohamed M.¹³¹⁵^ORCID,Smith Roger¹⁶^ORCID,Smith Russell⁵^ORCID,Tam Sut Ieng¹⁷^ORCID,Vassilakis Georgios N.¹¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK

2. School of Physics, The University of Sydney and ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

3. Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada

4. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

5. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91011, USA

6. Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, 1510 Farm Road 3224, Palestine, TX 75803, USA

7. StarSpec Technologies Inc., Unit C-5, 1600 Industrial Road, Cambridge, ON N3H 4W5, Canada

8. Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, EPFL, Observatoire de Sauverny, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland

9. University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), 4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON M3H 5T6, Canada

10. NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Balloon Program Office, 34200 Fulton St., Wallops Island, VA 23337, USA

11. Department of Physics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA

12. Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

13. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada

14. Division of Engineering Science, 40 St. George Street, Room 2110, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada

15. Palantir Technologies, 1875 Lawrence St., Denver, CO 80202, USA

16. California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

17. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

Abstract

In April 2023, the superBIT telescope was lifted to the Earth’s stratosphere by a helium-filled super-pressure balloon to acquire astronomical imaging from above (99.5% of) the Earth’s atmosphere. It was launched from New Zealand and then, for 40 days, circumnavigated the globe five times at a latitude 40 to 50 degrees south. Attached to the telescope were four “drs” (Data Recovery System) capsules containing 5 TB solid state data storage, plus a gnss receiver, Iridium transmitter, and parachute. Data from the telescope were copied to these, and two were dropped over Argentina. They drifted 61 km horizontally while they descended 32 km, but we predicted their descent vectors within 2.4 km: in this location, the discrepancy appears irreducible below ∼2 km because of high speed, gusty winds and local topography. The capsules then reported their own locations within a few metres. We recovered the capsules and successfully retrieved all of superBIT’s data despite the telescope itself being later destroyed on landing.

Funder

Royal Society

UK Science and Technology Facilities Council

nasa

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Aerospace Engineering

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/10/11/960/pdf

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