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THARSIS Launch Announced!
School experiments loaded onto the THARSIS tray The first MARSBalloon launch of 2014 is planned to take place on Thursday 19th June, from Beckington, Frome. The flight has been named Tharsis, after the...
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THARSIS Safely Recovered!
The first MARSBalloon launch of 2014, Tharsis, has successfully occurred! You can find the press release of the flight on its dedicated page. This will be updated with more pictures, video and flight...
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THARSIS flight video now available!
THARSIS flight video now available! A short highlights video, of footage captured by the onboard camera from the Tharsis flight, is now available on the dedicated Tharsis page. Share
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October MARSBalloon Flight Announced!
The next MARSBalloon flight, named Elysium after the volcanic region of Mars, will take place (weather permitting) on the last week of October 2014. To be included on this flight your experiments need...
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Elysium flight preparations underway
A view of Elysium, the second largest volcanic region of Mars All of the 100 available flight slots have been allocated for the next MARSBalloon Flight; named Elysium after an extinct volcanic region...
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Elysium to launch this Sunday!
Elysium experiment tray loaded and ready to fly into the stratosphere The second MARSBalloon flight of 2014, named Elysium after a volcanic region of Mars, is planned for liftoff on Sunday 26th October...
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Elysium mission a Success!
Elysium, the second MARSBalloon flight of 2014, was launched on Sunday 26th October from a Thales UK site in the Mendip hills and was safely recovered 5 hours later in Bramshill forest, Eversley. The...
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Two amazing Elysium flight videos now available!
Two videos of October’s Elysium MARSBalloon flight have been released, one that follows the MARSBalloon team on the launch and chase of the experiments, the other a compilation of footage taken during...
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MARSBalloon is back for 2015. Primary schools can now fly too!
Olympus Mons from Orbit, Credit NASA Thanks to generous funding from Thales UK, it is our pleasure to announce the next launch in our high flying MARSBalloon project! Our next launch will be in...
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Firestar is go!
Firestar, the fifth MARSBalloon mission will launch into the stratosphere at noon Wednesday the 17th June 2015. On board are 80 Mars science experiments from 42 primary and secondary schools from...
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