Two payloads efficiently flew a four-week research mission aboard a World View high-altitude balloon, supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program.
Reaching unprecedented altitudes of 81,000 feet, a World View high-altitude balloon successfully carried two cutting-edge technologies into the stratosphere: Area Setting Applied sciences’ ARMAS Twin Monitor system, and the CubeSounder climate forecasting technology developed by researchers at Arizona State University in Tempe. The knowledge gathered over the course of this 28-day journey significantly contributes to the progression of these applied sciences.
For the first time in history, ARMAS successfully conducted a groundbreaking 24/7 radiation monitoring operation at aviation altitudes, a feat that spanned an unprecedented four-week period.
ARMAS was designed to enhance aviation security by monitoring public radiation exposure from cosmic rays, solar particles, and Van Allen Belt particles. This involved measuring the entire column of radiation at various altitudes simultaneously using whole-body ionising dose and gamma-ray detection equipment. As a result of its collaboration with NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, ARMAS receives valuable support.
CubeSounder has compiled data to verify the effectiveness of its high-altitude performance. The CubeSounder is a compact, groundbreaking 3D imaging sensor that revolutionizes climate forecasting by capturing atmospheric temperature and humidity data in the form of three-dimensional photographs, all within an impressively smaller footprint than current atmospheric sounders.
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