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Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility

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The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) (established in 1961, formerly known as the National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)) is a NASA facility responsible for providing launch, tracking and control, airspace coordination, telemetry and command systems, and recovery services for unmanned high-altitude balloons. [1]

24 relations: Alice Springs, Antarctica, Esrange, Fairbanks, Alaska, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, Goddard Space Flight Center, High-altitude balloon, Lynn Lake, McMurdo Station, NASA, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Science Foundation, New Mexico State University, Orbital ATK, Palestine, Texas, Parachute, Polyethylene, Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-107, Telemetry, Texas, Vincent E. Lally, Wallops Flight Facility, Wanaka.

Alice Springs

Alice Springs (Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Esrange

Esrange Space Center (short form Esrange) is a rocket range and research centre located about 40 kilometers east of the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden.

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Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Fort Sumner, New Mexico

Fort Sumner is a U.S. village in De Baca County, New Mexico.

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Goddard Space Flight Center

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.

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High-altitude balloon

High-altitude balloons are manned or unmanned balloons, usually filled with helium or hydrogen and rarely methane, that are released into the stratosphere, generally attaining between.

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Lynn Lake

Lynn Lake is a town in the northwest region of Manitoba, Canada, approximately from Winnipeg.

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McMurdo Station

The McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research center on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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National Center for Atmospheric Research

The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public, land-grant, research university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, and the flagship campus of NMSU System.

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Orbital ATK

Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company.

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Palestine, Texas

Palestine is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, eastern Texas, in the United States.

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Parachute

A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag (or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift).

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Polyethylene

Polyethylene or polythene (abbreviated PE; IUPAC name polyethene or poly(ethylene)) is the most common plastic.

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Space Shuttle Columbia

Space Shuttle Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet.

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STS-107

STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the final flight of Space Shuttle ''Columbia''.

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Telemetry

Telemetry is an automated communications process by which measurements and other data are collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Vincent E. Lally

Vincent E. Lally (October 13, 1922 – September 20, 2005) received a B.S. in Meteorology from the University of Chicago in 1944.

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Wallops Flight Facility

Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, approximately north-northeast of Norfolk, is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other Federal agencies.

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Wanaka

Wanaka (Wānaka) is a popular ski and summer resort town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Scientific_Balloon_Facility

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