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


Fort Sumner 2022
Fall
Salter Test Flight
Mullenax Test Flight
Picture-C
HASP
BALBOA
TINMAN HL

Antarctica 2022-2023
SPIDER

New Zealand 2023
SuperBIT
EUSO


CSBF Program Manager: Robert Renko
Website Curator: Michelle Johnson
Last Updated: January 13, 2023
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