{"id":187405,"date":"2023-09-27T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=187405"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:54:13","slug":"nasa-stop-space-balloon-flight-at-124000-feet-after-mystery-anomaly-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/nasa-stop-space-balloon-flight-at-124000-feet-after-mystery-anomaly-found\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA stop space balloon flight at 124,000 feet after ‘mystery anomaly’ found"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA boffins have been left scratching their heads after being forced to cancel a mission part way through thanks to a \u201cmysterious anomaly\u201d.<\/p>\n

The strange occurrence happened at 124,000 feet in the air above Fort Summer, New Mexico. The FIREBall-2 balloon \u2013 which stands for Faint Intergalactic Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon \u2013 had been launched last week, in the hope of observing a \u201ccomponent of galaxies that play a key role in how galaxies form and evolve\u201d.<\/p>\n

But part way through the mission, when it was flying just west of the city of Clovis, a mysterious \u201canomaly\u201d was experience by the balloon and the flight was stopped. NASA is now investigating what it could be, with no details yet made public by the boffins.<\/p>\n

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A spokesman, giving very few details, said: \u201cAfter several hours at float, the balloon experienced an anomaly and began descending in altitude. The mission team safely terminated flight at 9:19 p.m. MDT west of Clovis, New Mexico, and NASA is in the process of recovering the payload and balloon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cause of the anomaly will be investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time the FIREBall-2 mission has had issues. The last time it took off was in 2021, but its 2018 mission was stopped for a more blunt reason.<\/p>\n

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