.NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's fifth balloon goal of the 2024 loss campaign flew Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, coming from the company's Columbia Scientific Balloon Center in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Pupil System) objective continued to be in flight over 11 hrs before it properly touched down. Recovery is underway.HASP is actually an alliance one of the Louisiana Area Grant Range, the Astrophysics Branch of NASA's Science Objective Directorate, as well as the organization's Balloon Plan Office and also Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. The HASP system supports around 12 student-built hauls and is actually created to trip test compact gpses, prototypes, as well as other small practices. Since 2006, HASP has engaged much more than 1,600 undergraduate and also graduate students associated with the objectives.Groups joining the 2024 HASP 1.0 flight featured: College of North Fla as well as University of North Dakota Arizona State College Louisiana Condition University University of Colorado Rock University of the Canyons Fort Lewis University Capitol Technical College University of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) and McMaster Educational Institution (Canada).A brand new, much larger model of the High-Altitude Student System (HASP 2.0) had its own design test air travel a few days prior. HASP 2.0 will be able to accommodate two times as lots of pupil experiments as HASP 1.0 as soon as operational in the upcoming year.The remaining 3 balloon air travels planned for the 2024 Ft Sumner drop initiative await following launch opportunities. To track the objectives, see NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility web site for real-time updates on balloons altitudes and also GPS sites during the course of flight.For more information on NASA's Scientific Balloon System, see:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.