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New Zealand 2025
HiWinds
SN12 - Test Flight
   
Ft. Sumner Fort Sumner Sept-Oct 2025
JPL Remote
Salter Test Flight
BOOP!
HASP
Picture-D
Thai-Spice
   

Burns, Oregon 2025
CDCP Hand Launch
ELVES Hand Launch

   
Antarctica

Antarctica Dec 2025 - Jan 2026
GAPS
PUEO
Hical 1 Hand Launch
Hical 2 Hand Launch

The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF), located in Palestine, Texas, is a NASA facility managed by Peraton. The contract to manage the facility is administered by the Balloon Program Office at Wallops Flight Facility of Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).

We provide the services of launching large (400 ft. dia), unmanned, high altitude (120,000 ft.), research balloons; tracking, and recovering the scientific experiments suspended beneath them, for NASA centers and Universities from all over the world.





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Balloon Program Chief: Gabriel Garde
CSBF Site Manager: Robert Renko
Website Curator: Michelle Johnson
Last Updated: January 29, 2025
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