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    NASA Balloon Crossing South America

    NASA’s super pressure balloon test flight carrying the HIWIND payload crossed into South America around 1 p.m. EDT (5 p.m. UTC) today, Wednesday, April 23.

    The balloon will pass over Chile and Argentina as it continues its globetrotting journey around the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes.

    To track the flight in real-time, visit Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility’s website here. 

    NASA Scientific Balloon on Track to Cross South America

    A graphic of a world map with green land masses and blue ocean, and a red line representing a flight path of a balloon.

    After five days in flight, NASA’s super pressure balloon test flight carrying the HIWIND payload has nearly crossed the Pacific Ocean and is on track to reach South America Wednesday, April 23 at approximately 2 p.m. EDT (April 23, 6:00 p.m. UTC). The stadium-sized, heavy-lift scientific balloon, which launched from Wānaka, New Zealand, April 16...

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    NASA’s Moon Seismometer Cleared for Construction 

    Three people in white astronaut suits with helmets and orange gloves stand in an area of sand-like substance, holding science instruments. One instrument in buried slightly in the sand

    NASA has confirmed that a seismometer being designed for the lunar surface is ready for building and assembly. The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) is one of several science payloads in development for potential deployment by astronauts during NASA’s Artemis III mission.   The LEMS instrument is a compact suite of seismometers, about the size...

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    NASA’s SpaceX CRS-32: Dragon Launches at 4:15 a.m. EDT

    At 4:15 a.m. EDT, about 6,700 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the company’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission for NASA. The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  About 9...

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    NASA’s SpaceX CRS-32: Dragon Launches at 4:15 a.m. EDT

    At 4:15 a.m. EDT, about 6,700 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the company’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission for NASA. The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  About 9...

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    NASA’s SpaceX CRS-32: Launch Coverage Underway

    NASA’s coverage is underway on NASA+ for the launch of SpaceX’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms.  The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff at 4:15 a.m. EDT on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at...

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