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Here are some answers to your quonsiets:- Our data rate is 1 mega bit per second. When we can see the telescope we can transmit this down. After it goes over the horizon we only get about 7 kilo bits per second over our omni-directional TDRSS antenna. This will be increased by a factor of ten this year with a high gain TDRSS antenna but still not enough.- Peak altitude, balloon volume and payload mass are closely related. Our mass is about 2000 kg plus the NASA equipment. We could fly another 1000 kg, but the balloon would not get nearly as high (we fly at 120,000 ft). You could fly a bigger balloon. Ours was 28 million cubic feet. You can get a 40 million cubic feet balloon, but it does not buy you nearly as much as you think. The maximum altitude is just determined by the weight, balloon volume, and air pressure vs altitude.- Your last question is much more complicated and goes beyond what I can respond here. You can go to the website and look at some the data there (blastexperiment.info). As for the raw time streams there is 120 GBytes of it too much too post!
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LaSalles in Toledo,Ohio
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