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...balloon will be one of six such vehicles observing the supernova, Grindlay says, adding that each balloon flight takes between one and two days...
...idea for the balloon telescope was developed at Harvard, but it was built and designed by a team of Smithsonian engineers, says James Cornell, CfA publications manager. NASA paid for the project...
...interview before he went to Australia for the project, Professor of Astronomy Jonathan E. Grindlay said he expected the balloon to rise approximately 130,000 feet, above 99.7 percent of the earth's atmosphere...
...balloon is a scientific research baloon, an enormous, very thin plastic bag about 600 feet high--about as high as the Prudential Building," he says...
...Harvard balloon team includes Harvard graduate student Corbin Covault, a Brazilian graduate student doing thesis research at Harvard, visiting grad student Joao Braga and a group of three to four Smithsonian engineers. who designed and built the telescope and gondola, and Grindlay...