ORISON overall project aims at boosting several fields of astronomy with the improvement of scientific instrumentation. The current action is addressed to carry out feasibility and design studies of an astronomically-oriented research infrastructure based on a balloon facility. This infrastructure can deploy one or several small-to-medium-sized telescopes and a suite of other scientific instruments as light payloads to do state of the art research at acceptable costs, and not necessarily from remote locations.

Awards

Innovative infrastructure for astronomical research based on stratospheric balloons
European Commission