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

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