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Students at the University of Central Lancashire have shown that the sky is no limit after sending a high-altitude balloon into near space.
They organised every aspect of the flight, from what is needed to carry a cargo of relevant instruments needed to collect data – known as an instrument payload – to obtaining flight authorisations from the Civil Aviation Authority, as well as launching and safely recovering the experiments upon landing.In addition to being a stunning location to capture images of the Earth, high altitude balloons can be used for many research purposes.
Robert Walsh, Professor of Astrophysics at UCLan, said: “It was excellent working with students from both physics and engineering to plan and launch the balloon experiments. This is applied learning that reflects elements of the skills required to provide our students with the opportunity to step in careers in the growing UK space sector.”
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