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The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF), located in Palestine, Texas, is a NASA facility managed by the Physical Science Lab of New Mexico State University.   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.

Antarctica 2012/2013
• Super-TIGER
• BLAST-Pol
• EBEX

 

Palestine 2013


Sweden 2013
• SPB
• SunRise II

Ft. Sumner Fall 2013
• X-Calibur - Krawczynski
• JPL Remote - Margitan
• HASP - Guzik
• HEROES - Gaskin
• HySICS - Kopp
• BOBCAT - Kogut
• PIPER - Kogut
• Grip - Lin

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Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
P.O. Box 319, Palestine, Tx  75802
Telephone   (903) 729-0271   Fax (903) 723-8056
Web page maintained by Michelle Johnson
(Michelle.Johnson@csbf.nasa.gov)
Last modified: February 5, 2013