BLAST-TNG

STREAM LAUNCH OPERATIONS! Link in bio. 5000lb telescope bound for the stratosphere over Antarctica, searching for the origins of stars!

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

It’s been a hard few days for the @blast_tng family. We will post more information as we learn more about what happened. Thanks for everybody’s support throughout this adventure, it means the world to us! #illbeback #wecanrebuildit #theadventurecontinues #blasttng

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

Good luck touching down!

[XL-Calibur @SuperTigerLDB]

The first steps of termination have commenced. Wish us luck for a gentle landing and a good landing site! #Antartica🇦🇶

[Michael Niemack @michaelniemack]

@LauraMFissel @BLAST_TNG I am so sorry to hear about the problem with the BLAST flight. For @CCATObservatory we look forward to hearing about the detector performance though, because we're planning to deploy similar detectors on CCAT-prime around the end of 2021!

[Laura Fissel @LauraMFissel]

And we'll work hard to try to rebuild @BLAST_TNG so that we can use it to study magnetic fields, star formation and planet formation, and interstellar dust on a (hopefully not too distant) future flight. #onwardsandupwards

[Laura Fissel @LauraMFissel]

We won't get to do the star formation science we had hoped from this flight of @BLAST_TNG. However we should have some cool results on the new experimental detectors flew, which might help make them ready for use in satellite telescopes!

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

Thanks Dan, and thanks for stopping to visit!

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

Keep on chugging! #goforanotherrecord

[XL-Calibur @SuperTigerLDB]

25 days! #Antarctica🇦🇶

[Henry Alwyn Wootten @awootten]

@ErikaHamden @BLAST_TNG Life on the cutting edge can result in blood. Mend soon and persevere!

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

@jansky_girl Thanks for your support Lisa!!

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

It’s been a hard few days for the @blast_tng family. We will post more information as we learn more about what happened. Thanks for everybody’s support throughout this adventure, it means the world to us! #illbeback #wecanrebuildit #theadventurecontinues #blasttng

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

Thanks @stratoballoon it's always good to take the long view. We've had a lot of practice coming back from tough times over the years!

[StratoCat @stratoballoon]

@BLAST_TNG So sorry to hear about this guys. I'm following your adventure since the first flight in 2003 and it's really devastating and frustrating when this happens.

However, ballooning always gives a second chance. Always.

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

@tbrien88 Thanks @tbrien88, we’re all about shellshocked here!

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

@cw4t7abs The best!

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

Happy belated Thanksgiving from the BLAST-TNG team in Antarctica. Here in McMurdo, we celebrate on Saturday after the real Thanksgiving #antarctica #mcmurdo #blasttng #celebration #thanksgiving

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

@LwdAnja Unfortunately yes! Just posted a new update

[School of Earth and Space Exploration @SESEASU]

Have you heard? As of today, BLAST has successfully launched! @SESEASU's Phil Mauskopf reporting from Antarctica via his blog: https://t.co/g0nFEU3in1. Congrats Phil and the Super BLAST-TNG team! @ASUTheCollege

[StratoCat @stratoballoon]

@BLAST_TNG has been launched tonight at 5:00 utc from NASA's Long Duration Balloon Facility at Williams Field airport in Antarctica as mission #708N.

It became the first balloon launched worldwide in 2020.

Track it in real time at: https://t.co/wtpktjhpW7

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

And we're off! Track @BLAST_TNG location here: https://t.co/YhqisI0Aod

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

#BLASTTNG has almost reached its cruising altitude of about 120,000 feet! Now begins the nerve wracking task of checking out all of the systems. #itsinthesky

[Laura Fissel @LauraMFissel]

Inflation of the @BLAST_TNG balloon. #balloons #antarctica #launchlaunchlaunch

[BLAST-TNG @BLAST_TNG]

STREAM THE LAUNCH HERE NOW https://t.co/ITdkBPiJVw