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Launch updates from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

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New Mexico Scientific Balloon Campaign Update- Sept. 4

The High-Altitude Student Platform 2 (HASP2) successfully launched at 8:28 a.m. MDT (10:28 a.m. EDT) Thursday, Sept. 4 and reached a float altitude of nearly 122,000 feet. HASP remained in flight for a total of 11 hours,40 minutes. Science reports a successful flight. The balloon and payload have safely landed, and recovery efforts are underway.

The HASP2 program is a collaborative effort between Louisiana Space Grant Consortium at Louisiana State University (LaSPACE – LSU), NASA SMD: Astrophysics Division, NASA Balloon Program Office (BPO) and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) to develop and operate an inexpensive platform that can be used to flight test compact satellites, prototypes and other small payloads designed and built by students. The High Altitude Student Platform 2 (HASP2) is designed to carry up to twenty-four (24) student payloads at a time to an altitude of about 110,000 feet with flight durations of 15 to 20 hours.

Student Payloads and Organizations for 2025 include:

  • Big Red Sat 1.5 – The University of Nebraska Lincoln
  • STRAINS 4.0 – Sint-Pieters College Jett
  • Bat Sat – University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • FLC Ionizing Radiation vs Solar Insolation (IRSI) Experiment – Fort Lewis College
  • Strato Sentinal – University of Boston Massachusetts
  • Ozone Sensors Payload – University of North Florida
  • Astrolab – Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
  • Spectra Solis – College of the Canyons
  • Astro Tracker II – Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
  • MSTRI – McMaster University
  •  OLIMPO – Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería

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NASA Sounding Rocket Mission Targeting Aug. 26 Launch Attempt

The TOMEX+ sounding rocket mission is targeting Tuesday, Aug. 26, for the next launch attempt. The window will open 10:30 p.m.-3:30 a.m. EDT. Follow live updates on Wallops Facebook and X, with a livestream starting later in the count.

Those in the mid-Atlantic region may catch a glimpse of the rockets, weather permitting.

NASA Sounding Rocket Mission Targeting Aug. 25 Launch Attempt

The TOMEX+ sounding rocket mission is targeting Monday, Aug. 25, for the first launch attempt. The window will open 10 p.m.-3 a.m. EDT. Follow live updates on Wallops Facebook and X, with a livestream beginning five minutes before launch.

Those in the mid-Atlantic region may catch a glimpse of the rockets, weather permitting.

A visibility map showing the mid-Atlantic region. The map shows how many seconds after launch people in the area may be able to see the sounding rocket in the sky. The land is green and the ocean is dark blue. Visibility of 30-44 seconds is represented by a purple semi-circle reaching north to Massachusetts, west to West Virginia, and almost as south as Wilmington, North Carolina. 10-30 seconds is represented by a bright blue semi-circle reaching north to New Jersey, west into Virginia, and south to the upper part of North Carolina. Visibility from 0-10 seconds is indicated by a bright green semi-circle mostly covering the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia. On the right is a black box with white words: "Colors indicate when viewers will have line-of-sight access to the vehicle, with 3° elevation or more. Measured in seconds after takeoff.
Launch visibility map indicating visibility zones for when the TOMEX+ rockets will be visible, in seconds after launch: green (0-10 sec), blue (10-30 sec), and purple (30-40+ sec).
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