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Launch Schedule

Take a look at our upcoming scientific balloon launches and watch the live balloon tracking feed for ongoing ones!

Launch vehicle, payload, parachute and inflated balloon be prepared for launch.

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Launch Schedule

Inflated Balloon in front of sunset.

Fort Sumner Sep-Oct 2026

SCHEDULED, Payloads: BOOP!, CORSAIR, HASP, Mullenax Test Flight, Salter Test Flight<br>

A teardrop-shaped scientific balloon being prepared for launch on a snowy landscape.

Antarctica Dec 2026-Jan 2027

SCHEDULED, Payloads: ADAPT, BALBOA, EXCITE

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See more about scientific balloons from NASA!
EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope)
2 min read

EXCITE’s goal is to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system.

Mission
Live From the Clean Room at JPL
1 min read

Watch Us Build Two New Missions Welcome to the High Bay 1 clean room in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at…

Mission
GUSTO
3 min read

GUSTO is a scientific balloon mission that will measure emissions from the interstellar medium, the material between stars.

Mission