SPIDER 2 2022/2023

Flight information

• Launch date and time

  • NZDT (McMurdo local): 10:28 December 22, 2022

  • UTC: 21:28 December 21, 2022
  • EST: 16:28 December 21, 2022
  • CST: 15:28 December 21, 2022

• Real time tracking from CSBF

Major media coverage

University coverage

• "Graduate students spend a hot summer in Texas preparing the SPIDER CMB Polarimeter for Antarctic campaign", Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe, 15Oct2022

• Back to Antarctica with SPIDER, Washington University of St. Louis, 06Dec2022

• SPIDER launches from Antarctica, Washington University of St. Louis, 21Dec2022

• The height of advanced technology: SPIDER's high-altitude balloon flight collects new data on the CMB, University of Illinois, 27Jan2023

Other

• Balloon-borne telescopes take baby pictures of the cosmos Antarctic Sun

• The SPIDER balloon South Pole Station

2015 Flight

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

  • Accompanying online photo gallery

• "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