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space sciences, providing a low
cost platform for companies &
the space industry to carry out
research & development at the
edge of space.
The aim is for Big Space
The Big Space
Balloon - The Mission
The Big Space Balloon is a
project which aims to launch
the Worlds biggest crowd based
high altitude research balloon,
designed to fly to the edge of
space and explore the highest
regions of the earth’s atmosphere
to an altitude of up to 130,000
feet, into the Earths Stratosphere.
The balloon’s envelope will
be up to a 100 metres in diameter. Potentially using a super pressure balloon envelope design,
which can enable a sustained
period of flight of several days
over thousands of miles. The Big
Space Balloon will carry a scientific capsule to undertake a
range of experiments regarding
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Balloon to act as platform to
test out new technologies in the
space environment, such as the
printed Solar-cells on the balloon
envelope.
These could pave the way for
a new way of powering future
spacecraft or space stations,
produced and deployed at relatively low cost compared to traditional space based solar cell
units, which are both expensive