.NASA's Scientific Balloon System's fifth balloon goal of the 2024 loss campaign took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, coming from the company's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location in Ft Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Trainee System) purpose continued to be in flight over 11 hours prior to it properly touched down. Recuperation is underway.HASP is a partnership amongst the Louisiana Area Grant Range, the Astrophysics Department of NASA's Scientific research Purpose Directorate, and also the agency's Balloon Course Workplace and also Columbia Scientific Balloon Amenities. The HASP platform sustains up to 12 student-built hauls and also is actually made to flight examination small gpses, prototypes, and also other tiny experiments. Considering that 2006, HASP has actually engaged much more than 1,600 undergraduate and college students involved in the missions.Crews taking part in the 2024 HASP 1.0 flight included: College of North Florida and also College of North Dakota Arizona Condition Educational Institution Louisiana State College University of Colorado Rock College of the Canyons Ft Lewis College Capitol Building Technical University College of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) and McMaster University (Canada).A brand-new, larger variation of the High-Altitude Student Platform (HASP 2.0) had its design test air travel a few times prior. HASP 2.0 will definitely be able to fit twice as numerous student experiments as HASP 1.0 once operational in the upcoming year.The staying three balloon flights arranged for the 2024 Fort Sumner drop project await upcoming launch opportunities. To tail the objectives, see NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location site for real-time updates on balloons altitudes as well as GPS locations during the course of flight.For more details on NASA's Scientific Balloon Program, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.