TECHRISE STUDENT CHALLENGE

The flight was sponsored by NASA's Flight Opportunities program under the TechRise Student Challenge that gives student teams a chance to design and build science and technology experiments for flight on balloons, enabling them to collect data on a variety of space exploration and Earth observation experiments in areas such as remote sensing, climate, and human health to name a few.

This flight hosted 30 experiments from students from high schools of all the United States.

Balloon launched on: 7/21/2023 at 12:30 utc
Launch site: Hurley, South Dakota, US  
Balloon launched by: Aerostar
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon  
Flight identification number: HBALN938TH
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 7/21/2023 at 20:30 utc
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 8 h
Landing site: Near Vermillion, South Dakota, US

• Aerostar website  
• Flight Opportunities Program NASA website
• Interactive flight path of the balloon obtained via ADS-B Exchange
• NASA TechRise Student Payloads Explore New Heights NASA website
• Piscataway High School Students' Experiment on Ozone Levels Launched into Stratosphere by NASA New Jersey Updates