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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Michael Lentz
NASA has completed construction of a record-tying large primary mirror for a telescope to be carried aloft by a high-altitude balloon. Planned for launch from NASA’s Long Duration Balloon Facility near the McMurdo Station in Antarctica no earlier than December 2023, the Astrophysics Stratospheric...
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