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NASA Launches APL’s Planetary Science Balloon; Andy Cheng Comments

NASA Launches APL's Planetary Science Balloon; Andy Cheng Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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NASA has launched the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-built Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science into space in order to study solar system objects.

The spacecraft took off from the Fort Sumner, New Mexico-based NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Research Facility on Thursday and will work to detect organic elements on objects in the solar system, NASA said Thursday.

BOPPS to survey an Oort cloud comet, asteroids Ceres and Vesta, and Neptune and Uranus,

“We will be able to observe frozen volatiles on comets and asteroids in ways that can help us answer some of the biggest questions we face about how our solar system formed,” said Andy Cheng, BOPPS principal investigator of Johns Hopkins APL.

BOPPS features a telescope, an infrared camera and a combined ultraviolet/visible camera to observe planetary objects.

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