NASA’s Future Telescopes Will Float at the Edge of Space

NASA wants a new type of space telescope. A team of scientists and engineers at NASA are developing ways to send ultra cold and ultra large balloon telescopes to the edge of space, which could open up a brand new way of seeing the cosmos. »Subscribe to Seeker! »Watch more Focal Point | » Visit our shop at NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin are practically synonymous with rockets... those massive, powerful vehicles allow us to travel beyond Earth. But while the ongoing competition to launch the world’s next best rocket tends to dominate news headlines, there’s a little known mission at NASA to develop a new kind of space telescope… and this project is using something else entirely - balloons. You can do more science in a single balloon flight than you could do from years and years of observing from any of these existing observatories. You can take technology risks on a balloon that would never be able to ta