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ComPair principal investigator Carolyn Kierans (NASA, left) and the University of Maryland Baltimore county’s Janeth Valverde Quispe (right) and Nicholas Cannady (back) work on ComPair ahead of thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in this photograph. They are connecting the instrument via cable to power systems and the onboard computer. Once inside the chamber, ComPair experienced conditions similar to those found at balloon altitudes. Credit: NASA/Scott Wiessinger

NASA’s ComPair Balloon Mission Readies for Flight

ComPair detects gamma rays with energies between 200,000 and 20 million electron volts. Visible light’s energy falls between 2 and 3 electron volts, for comparison.

by SpaceRef August 9, 2023July 15, 2024

The balloon carrying the SPIDER instrument

SPIDER Balloon-borne Telescopes Study The Cosmos Over Antarctica

by SpaceRef March 14, 2023July 15, 2024

FLOATing DRAGON

University Finalists Selected for New NASA Balloon Challenge

by SpaceRef February 5, 2023July 15, 2024

World View

Infleqtion and World View Launch New Quantum Application Testing Solution

by SpaceRef January 26, 2023July 15, 2024

Balloon

Venus Aerial Robotic Balloon Prototype Aces Test Flights

by SpaceRef October 10, 2022July 15, 2024

straoflight

Stratoflight And Expleo Join Forces To Take Passengers Into Near Space By Balloon

by SpaceRef September 16, 2022July 15, 2024

Lofted by NASA Balloons, New Experiments Will Study Sun-Earth System

by SpaceRef April 29, 2021July 15, 2024

NASA Balloon Sets Flight Duration Record

by SpaceRef July 3, 2016July 15, 2024

Super Pressure Balloon Begins Global Flight

by SpaceRef May 18, 2016July 15, 2024

NASA Will Attempt Balloon Flight Duration Record

by SpaceRef March 5, 2016July 15, 2024