.NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's 5th balloon goal of the 2024 loss initiative flew Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, coming from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fortress Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Trainee System) objective remained in trip over 11 hours prior to it safely and securely touched down. Recuperation is underway.HASP is actually a partnership among the Louisiana Room Give Consortium, the Astrophysics Department of NASA's Science Purpose Directorate, as well as the company's Balloon Course Office and also Columbia Scientific Balloon Establishment. The HASP platform supports up to 12 student-built payloads and is designed to flight examination small satellites, prototypes, and also other small practices. Given that 2006, HASP has actually engaged much more than 1,600 undergraduate and also graduate students associated with the purposes.Groups participating in the 2024 HASP 1.0 flight featured: University of North Florida and also University of North Dakota Arizona State College Louisiana Condition Educational Institution University of Colorado Rock College of the Canyons Ft Lewis College Capitol Building Technical University Educational Institution of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) and also McMaster College (Canada).A brand-new, much larger variation of the High-Altitude Pupil Platform (HASP 2.0) had its own design test tour a few times prior. HASP 2.0 is going to have the capacity to suit two times as lots of pupil experiments as HASP 1.0 the moment working in the upcoming year.The remaining three balloon flights set up for the 2024 Ft Sumner fall campaign wait for next launch chances. To track the objectives, go to NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location site for real-time updates on balloons altitudes as well as GPS locations throughout flight.For more details on NASA's Scientific Balloon Course, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.