A Super-Pressure Balloon Will Keep This Telescope in the Air for Weeks

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  • July 20, 2021

A unique telescope is set to launch from New Zealand in April 2022, designed to survey the gravitational lensing that occurs when galactic clusters collide. The instrument, called SuperBIT, will be suspended by a stadium-sized helium balloon in Earth’s stratosphere.

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