Reply to post: Re: Hydrogen or Helium?

We're not all about rockets, says NASA: Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning

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Re: Hydrogen or Helium?

It will use Helium. Your googling was really hardly half-arsed - more like quarter-arsed - given it says so in the press release linked from the El Reg article. I was more intrigued by the idea that a balloon is 'higher risk' than a spacecraft - but that turns out to be awkward phrasing - what NAS have said is that you can afford to fly more technologically risky cutting-edge kit on a balloon, not that balloons pose particularly high risks of explosive disassembly

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