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Flight information
- Launch date and time
NZDT (McMurdo local): 16:59 January 1, 2015
- UTC: 03:59 January 1, 2015
- EST: 22:59 December 31, 2014
- CST: 21:59 December 31, 2014
- PST: 19:59 December 31, 2014
Launch site: Long Duration Balloon (LDB) field camp, 3 miles from Williams Field (NZWD), McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica
- Float altitude: 36 km (118,000 feet)
Real time tracking from CSBF
Major media coverage
https://astronomy.com/news/2021/01/flight-of-the-spider, Astronomy magazine, Feb 2021
"Antarctica Trip", CBC Metro Morning Toronto (Radio Interview), Oct. 23, 2014
"A High-Flying Web May Catch the Beginning of Time", Scientific American, Nov. 12, 2014
"Canadian scientists on Antarctic mission aim to reveal cosmic origins", Globe and Mail, Dec. 19, 2014
"Big Bang to be Investigated from Balloon in Antarctica", New York Times, Jan. 2, 2015
"UBC telescope searching for clues to beginning of the universe", Global News, Jan. 8, 2015
"Canadian scientists seek to unravel Big Bang mystery over Antarctica", CTV News, Jan. 18, 2015
"Big questions somewhat answered", "Big Picture Science" radio show and podcast, Jan. 19, 2015.
"High Adventure Physics", Symmetry Magazine, May 12, 2015
"Flight of the SPIDER", Astronomy, January 28, 2021
University coverage
"Far above Antarctica, Princeton's 'spacecraft' seeks traces of the early universe", Princeton University, September 25, 2014
"Welcome to Antarctica: counting down to the launch of SPIDER", University of Toronto News, December 9, 2014
"Princeton satellite successfully heads to the 'edge of space' to study the early universe", Princeton University, January 6, 2015
"Researchers launch SPIDER telescope to study universe expansion", The Ubyssey, University of British Columbia, January 7, 2015
"SPIDER Experiment Touches Down in Antarctica", Caltech News (also JPL News), January 21, 2015
Other
"The Big Bang by Balloon", Amanda Yoho for "Starts with a Bang!", January 28, 2015
"BAS recovers American scientific data in Antarctica", British Antarctic Survey news, February 11, 2015