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LPPC #100 – Faucheuse
Episode enregistrée le 9 janvier 2025.Je reviens à quelque chose de classique. Oui ! Cette fois-ci, je te parle d'une série de livres de Neal Shusterman. Il s'agit de "La Faucheuse".Tu trouveras ci dessous les liens vers les 4 ouvrages :

Tome 1 : La faucheuse --> babelio.com/liv
blog.irslo.net/2025/01/12/lppc
#LibrPourPodConduite #faucheurs #glasShusterman #LaFaucheuse #littrature #NealShusterman #roman #thunderhead #trilogie

Aerostar established a new record with one of their Thunderhead balloons being aloft for 200 days and counting.

Mission HBAL676 launched on March 28 from the firm's winter Lodge in Santa Fe County, is still floating 60 kft above the Pacific Ocean.

The previous record was 156 days aloft.

aerostar.com/news/aerostar-thu.

All the sudden, #HBAL661 an Aerostar #Thunderhead balloon launched on October 23, 2023 from South Dakota, appeared this afternoon in the ADS-B grid off Baja California. The balloon spent almost 70 days wandering off the grid in the Pacific Ocean.

So far it has been aloft for 92 days.

globe.airplanes.live/?icao=abf

Let's see in the next hours if #HBAL665 -launched on Oct. 24- which followed a similar flight path appears too in the screens.

Impressive image of an #Aerostar #Thunderhead balloon at float altitude.

The vehicle took part in the Stratospheric Optical Link Demonstration (SOLD) project carried out by the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific and NASA.

SOLD's goal is to research optical communications in the stratosphere and demonstrate the requisite capabilities for establishing these optical links, all while addressing the challenges of operating in the stratospheric environment.

With the advance of tropical storm #Hilary over California, Aerostar Intl. withdrew to the mainland the two #Thunderhead balloons that had been operating some 300 miles from the coast over the Pacific Ocean. They are the sole survivors of the five launched from Daggett-Barstow Airport in early August.

#HBAL649 is still in flight moving NW and entering Nevada while yesterday, #HBAL648 finally landed in Temblor Range, 65 km West of Bakersfield after being airborne for over 14 days.