.NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's 5th balloon mission of the 2024 fall initiative took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location in Ft Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Student System) mission remained in flight over 11 hours prior to it properly touched down. Recuperation is underway.HASP is a collaboration one of the Louisiana Area Give Consortium, the Astrophysics Branch of NASA's Scientific research Purpose Directorate, and also the organization's Balloon System Workplace and Columbia Scientific Balloon Center. The HASP platform supports around 12 student-built hauls and also is actually created to trip test sleek gpses, prototypes, and also other small experiments. Considering that 2006, HASP has actually engaged more than 1,600 undergraduate as well as college students involved in the purposes.Teams participating in the 2024 HASP 1.0 trip included: College of North Florida as well as University of North Dakota Arizona Condition College Louisiana State Educational Institution University of Colorado Rock University of the Canyons Fortress Lewis College Capitol Building Technical College College of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) and McMaster University (Canada).A brand new, much larger variation of the High-Altitude Student System (HASP 2.0) possessed its design exam air travel a handful of times prior. HASP 2.0 will certainly have the ability to accommodate twice as lots of pupil experiments as HASP 1.0 once operational in the upcoming year.The continuing to be 3 balloon air travels arranged for the 2024 Ft Sumner drop project await upcoming launch chances. To trail the goals, visit NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Center site for real-time updates on balloons heights and GPS areas in the course of air travel.For more details on NASA's Scientific Balloon Plan, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.