.NASA's Scientific Balloon System's 5th balloon objective of the 2024 fall initiative took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, coming from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Trainee System) mission stayed in air travel over 11 hrs before it properly touched down. Rehabilitation is actually underway.HASP is a collaboration amongst the Louisiana Area Grant Consortium, the Astrophysics Division of NASA's Science Objective Directorate, and also the company's Balloon Course Office as well as Columbia Scientific Balloon Center. The HASP platform assists as much as 12 student-built payloads and is actually made to tour examination small satellites, prototypes, and other small experiments. Considering that 2006, HASP has actually interacted greater than 1,600 undergraduate and also college students associated with the goals.Teams taking part in the 2024 HASP 1.0 flight consisted of: University of North Fla and College of North Dakota Arizona State Educational Institution Louisiana Condition Educational Institution College of Colorado Boulder College of the Canyons Fortress Lewis University Capitol Technical University Educational Institution of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) and also McMaster Educational Institution (Canada).A brand new, much larger model of the High-Altitude Student System (HASP 2.0) possessed its own design test flight a handful of days prior. HASP 2.0 is going to have the ability to fit twice as numerous pupil experiments as HASP 1.0 when working in the upcoming year.The continuing to be 3 balloon air travels planned for the 2024 Fortress Sumner drop project await next launch possibilities. To tail the missions, go to NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility website for real-time updates on balloons heights as well as GPS locations during trip.For more details on NASA's Scientific Balloon Plan, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.