A stadium-sized helium balloon will be used to lift the next telescope that NASA and the Canadian Space Agency want to send to the upper level of the Earth’s atmosphere, according to the report by Gizmodo.
The telescope is said to be the successor to the Hubble telescope and named the imaging telescope which is transmitted a superpresure or superbit balloon.
It has been designed by the University of Toronto, University of Princeton and Durham University in the UK together, along with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency and is scheduled to be launched from New Zealand in March 2022.
Telescopes that are transmitted through balloons can remain on the internet.
Stratosphere for weeks and even months.
Balloon Balloon Fearing Telescope: The main purpose of Superbit Purposethet is “to provide insight into the distribution of dark matter in the cluster galaxy and along the large-scale structure of the universe.”, Said a Toronto University website post.
A helium balloon with a volume of 532,000 cubic meters will lift a 25-mile superbit into the sky.
It costs around $ 5 million to build a telescope.
One of the benefits felt from the superbit is the advantage because it is not affected by changes in weather such as cloudy conditions at night or smog caused by some forest fires because it will be located in the stratosphere, above the troposphere, and therefore, will be mostly clear.
From and not affected by weather conditions because most weather activities occur in troposphere.
Superbits will charge fees with the help of solar panels designed in their structure, images at night and thus surround the world ball.
Telescope Balloon-Ballepressure Balloon Imaging: Why is the need? The report citing members of the Superbit team Mohamed Shaaban said that the Hubble telescope was aging and also overloaded, which meant having more work orders that could be resolved.
Therefore the need for a new telescope that can support Hubble in observing space appears.
According to the report, the telescope with the optical system three times the superbit size is also in work.
This will be called gigabit and is expected to undergo first test flight on September 2022.
Euclid telescope by a European space agency is also scheduled to be launched next year.
NASA to use balloons the size of a soccer stadium to lift the ‘successor’ to the Hubble telescope
