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


Sweden April 2024
Helix
BOOMS/60MCF
XL-Calibur
Sunrise

Fort Sumner Sept-Oct 2024
TINMAN Hand Launch
HASP 1.0
HASP 2.0
Salter Test Flight
EXCITE
ThaiSpice
TIM
DRTes

Antarctica Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
GAPS
ASTHROS
SalterTestFlight Unversal

Balloon Program Chief: Andrew Hamilton
CSBF Site Manager: Robert Renko
Website Curator: Michelle Johnson
Last Updated: June 19, 2024
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