Stratospheric Ballooning Association

The Stratospheric Ballooning Association is devoted to making stratospheric ballooning available to everyone

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The Stratospheric Ballooning Association (SBA) has been monitoring recent events involving high-altitude balloons over United States airspace. Hundreds, if not thousands, of high-altitude balloons are flown safely every day for the purpose of meteorological, scientific, and educational purposes. These types of balloons provide atmospheric data that is critical for weather predictions and atmospheric science studies. They also are used to fly a wide variety of other science and technology payloads into the stratosphere. High-altitude balloons provide an affordable and inspiring tool for students to learn and become excited about STEM activities by flying student-built payloads into the near-space environment.
We remind all SBA members and those actively doing safe, high-altitude ballooning to please exercise caution, always employing best practices, including working closely with your local FAA office.

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Iowa State has launched their first balloon for the eclipse!

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I was visiting with some of the schools participating in the National Eclipse Ballooning Project led by Montana Space Grant. Below is St. Catherine University launching one of the scientific payloads.

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The first day of AHAC concluded with some great discussions on the upcoming eclipse flights. Today’s conference kicks off with a balloon flight at 8:45.

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Check out the video feeds from student payloads on HASP!
Camera 1: https://t.co/KAymcTeVYl
Camera 2: https://t.co/w2s8v69S8Y
Camera 3: https://t.co/68TEeqJTc5

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AHAC 2022 will be coming up fast. For those that want to submit a paper or poster please see the deadlines below.

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AHAC 2022 https://t.co/rDLHMFJ33X

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Save the date! AHAC is returning this fall! More details will be coming soon!

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It's almost here! The virtual AHAC conference is this Saturday! If you have not registered yet, please do so here - https://t.co/KGJzkcCrPJ We are looking forward to seeing everyone virtually this Saturday!

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Due to COVID-19, the SBA had to move the annual (AHAC) to a different date and we have now moved it as a virtual conference. The conference will now be on Sept 19th, and will be free to participants. Additional information can be found on our website.

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#ahac2018 is coming to a close. We want to thank everyone that attended the conference this year and look forward to seeing everyone for AHAC 2019 in Ames, IA

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See you at 8th Annual Academic High-Altitude Conference AHAC 2017. October 27th and 28th. Check out the details at https://t.co/21CnohDIqO

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Submit your Eclipse footage to our conference video montage! By October 9. https://t.co/yOKXWwnHPL #Eclipse #MN #Science #conference #UMM

[Caleb Kinchlow @calebkinchlow]

Make sure you're watching safely! @GreatSmokyNPS @nasa360 https://t.co/WDmA796Dei #eclipseacrossthesmokies

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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research to start a balloon campaign from National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad, India https://t.co/69qKz0Xnbm

[Domenico @AvatarDomy]

@SpaceX #CRS12 -#Falcon 9 First Stage Landing

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In just three days, COSGC teams travel to Wyoming to begin preparations for eclipse launch #COSGC #cuengineering #NASAspacegrant

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Nasa will have a live event for the Total Solar Eclipse! If you can't make it, you can still experience! https://t.co/me2bBh3SRX

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How to View the 2017 Solar Eclipse Safelyhttps://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety

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Perfect day for MiniRad testing - sensor for the PolarCube cubesat payload. #cosgc #nasaspacegrant #cuengineering #cospace