Science and technology development from balloon-borne telescopes and experiments is a rich return on a relatively modest involvement of NASA resources. For the past three decades, the development of increasingly competitive and complex science payloads and observational programs from high altitude balloon-borne platforms has yielded significant scientific discoveries. The success and capabilities of scientific balloons are closely related to advancements in the textile and plastic industries. This paper will present an overview of scientific balloons as a viable and economical platform for transporting large telescopes and scientific instruments to the upper atmosphere to conduct scientific missions. Additionally, the paper sheds the light on the problems associated with UV degradation of high performance textile components that are used to support the payload of the balloon and proposes future research to reduce/eliminate Ultra Violet (UV) degradation in order to conduct long-term scientific missions.


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    Titel :

    Giant Vehicles


    Beteiligte:
    Said, Magdi A (Autor:in) / Schur, Willi W. (Autor:in) / Gupta, Amit (Autor:in) / Mock, Gary N. (Autor:in) / Seyam, Abdelfattah M. (Autor:in) / Theyson, Thomas (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2004


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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