Models indicate that #VHABFs *🎈 are very susceptible to changes in #SpaceWeather ☢️, during stronger #GLE events**. This is largely due to their long cruise time at high altitude. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896723000289

*very high altitude balloon flights beyond the #stratosphere via commercial entities such as #WorldView and #SpacePerspective

** Ground Level Event is a solar particle event where charged particles have sufficient energy to be measured at the #Earth's surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_level_enhancement

Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Super_Pressure_Balloon_Begins_Globetrotting_Journey_(26978370252).jpg

Up, up, and away indeed! 🎈 Beginning in 2025, balloon rides into the stratosphere are on sale NOW!

#SpacePerspective

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🎈 The sub-#orbital #spacetourism company plans to build multiple marine #spaceports. It’s currently selling tickets for the 2h “edge of #space’ trip for $125,000. #SpacePerspective has sold over 1,000 tickets so far https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/11/24/would-you-pay-125000-to-see-the-northern-lights-from-a-space-balloon