ARCADE Status

ARCADE has shipped! The payload left Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on July 3, headed for the launch site at the National Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas.

We hope to launch ARCADE around July 18 2006. Click on the hardware status link below for updates on the instrument hardware.

The launch status link will redirect you to NSBF web site where you can follow the payload during flight.

Hardware Status Launch Status
Hardware Status
Launch Status


ARCADE has previously flown in 2001, 2003, and 2005. The link below shows some pictures from these old flights.

Palestine 2003 Balloon Inflation
Previous Flights


Contacts:
Responsible NASA Official: Al Kogut, NASA
Alan.J.Kogut@nasa.gov
Curator: Sarah Fixsen, SSAI
smf@arcade.gsfc.nasa.gov
Design Artibus Interactive

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