Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 12/19/2025 at 16:56 UTC
Launch site: Williams Field, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Balloon launched by: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
Flight identification number: 760N
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 1/12/2026 at 3:00 UTC (L)
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 23 d 9 h 52 m
Landing site: In the East Antarctic Plateau, 255 km from the South Pole, Antarctica
External references
- PUEO website
- PUEO website NASA's HEASARC
- Design of the PUEO Payload Volume 470 - 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA2024) - Balloon-based radio experiments
- Modeling Neutrino and Background Signals for the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) Experiment EPJ Web of Conferences 283, 06018 (2023)
- PUEO Prepares for flight in Antarctica University College London Website
- The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO): A White Paper Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 16, August 2021, p. 8035
- The Sensitivity of PUEO to Cosmogenic Neutrinos and Exotic Physics Scenarios ArXiv
- Two NASA Scientific Balloon Launches Planned From Antarctica NASA website
Images of the mission
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