Balloon test of HySICS instrument ended successfully on Apr. 18, 2014.
In New Mexico on the morning of Aug. 18, 2014, a high-altitude balloon successfully carried the HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) instrument to an altitude of 123,000 feet, above most of the Earth’s atmosphere, to reach space-like conditions and demonstrate new technologies for acquiring high-accuracy science measurements of the Earth. The payload landed east of Holbrook, Arizona.