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This would not allow for long, serious study of distant astronomical bodies.
Recently,NASAdeveloped new superpressure balloons, capable of keeping SuperBIT aloft for months at a time.
SuperBIT can be continually updated, and will not have the same limitations asspace-based telescopes.
The camera used on the most recent test flight of SuperBIT was purchased just weeks before the flight.
New balloon technology makes visiting space cheap, easy, and environmentally friendly.
Next, designers are working toward a next-generation SuperBIT, featuring a mirror stretching a meter-and-a-half side-to-side.
That instrument would be capable of surpassing the capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope.
(The balloon currently limits developers to a two-meter telescope).
Test flights were successfully conducted of flight and operational systems in 2016 and 2019.
This article was originally published onThe Cosmic Companionby James Maynard, the founder and publisher of The Cosmic Companion.
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