Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope
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Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope
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The Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a highly stabilized, high-resolution telescope that operates in the stratosphere via NASA's superpressure balloon (SPB) system. At 40 km altitude above sea level, the football-stadium-sized balloon carries SuperBIT to a suborbital environment above 99.2% of the Earth's atmosphere in order to obtain space-quality imaging. As a research instrument, SuperBIT's primary science goal is to provide insight into the distribution of dark ma
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-pressure_Balloon-borne_Imaging_Telescope
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2021-07-21T00:53:29Z
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2024-09-07T07:07:52Z
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