.NASA's Scientific Balloon Plan's fifth balloon mission of the 2024 fall project flew Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, coming from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Student Platform) mission stayed in flight over 11 hours prior to it securely touched down. Rehabilitation is actually underway.HASP is a relationship amongst the Louisiana Area Give Consortium, the Astrophysics Division of NASA's Scientific research Objective Directorate, and the agency's Balloon Plan Office and Columbia Scientific Balloon Location. The HASP system assists around 12 student-built payloads as well as is designed to flight exam small gpses, prototypes, and various other tiny practices. Considering that 2006, HASP has actually involved more than 1,600 undergraduate and also graduate students involved in the missions.Staffs taking part in the 2024 HASP 1.0 flight consisted of: Educational institution of North Fla and Educational Institution of North Dakota Arizona Condition College Louisiana State University College of Colorado Rock College of the Canyons Fort Lewis University Capitol Technical University Educational Institution of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) and also McMaster University (Canada).A brand-new, bigger variation of the High-Altitude Trainee Platform (HASP 2.0) possessed its own design exam tour a few times prior. HASP 2.0 will have the ability to suit two times as numerous pupil experiments as HASP 1.0 as soon as operational in the upcoming year.The remaining three balloon tours arranged for the 2024 Ft Sumner drop campaign await following launch chances. To follow the objectives, browse through NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Center web site for real-time updates on balloons altitudes and also GPS sites during the course of flight.To learn more on NASA's Scientific Balloon System, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.