The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was launched in a hot air balloon from Wanaka Airport in New Zealand and circled the globe 5.5 times before being damaged when it landed in Argentina. Despite the damage to the telescope and communications failures, Dr. The data recovery system developed by Ellen Sierks parachuted in packages safely containing more than 200 gigabytes of critical information, including a map of dark matter and stunning space photographs.
The successful recovery of the payload underscores the importance of the system, provides guidance for its future use, and potentially influences its adoption for other NASA science missions.
Sirks noted the system’s effectiveness in turning a potential data loss disaster into mission success.
Source: Ferra
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