The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility

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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.

NASA/CSBF: The Scientific Ballooning Story

Scientific Balloons Video Gallery

Palestine Operations

Fort Sumner Operations

Antarctica Operations

Wanaka Operations


Fort Sumner 2023
Salter Test Flight
Fireball
JPL Remote
EXCITE
HASP2.0
GRAPE/COMPAIR
TINMAN Hand Launch

Antarctica 2023-2024
GUSTO
Aesop-Lite/60MCF
Laure Solar Hand Launch

Sweden 2024
Helix
BOOMS/60MCF
XL-Calibur
Sunrise


CSBF Program Manager: Robert Renko
Website Curator: Michelle Johnson
Last Updated: March 12, 2024
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