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Super Pressure Balloon Flight Map

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Apr 28, 2015
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NASA's SPB text ended April 27, 32 days after launch.
Map showing the beginning, in New Zealand, and end, in Austrailia, of the super pressure balloon flight test in 2015.

NASA ended the most rigorous test yet conducted of a super pressure balloon at 11:03 p.m. EDT April 27 after 32 days, 5 hours of flight. Controllers detected a leak developing in the balloon and for safety, issued flight termination commands, ending the balloon’s flight over a remote area near the Queensland and New South Wales border just east of Australia’s Sturt National Park. Credits: NASA / BPO

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