{"id":6690,"date":"2023-04-17T00:49:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T04:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2023-04-17T00:53:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T04:53:22","slug":"superbit-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=6690","title":{"rendered":"SuperBIT launch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day and something ago (what even is time?), late on Sunday morning, SuperBIT launched! On a Super Pressure Balloon from beautiful Wanaka, New Zealand. I have had few moments in between where I haven&#8217;t been frantic or grabbing a bit of precious sleep.<\/p>\n<p>So far things appear to be working well, and the balloon seems healthy. More to come.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/300854727\/watch-nasa-launches-balloon-from-wnaka\">news article<\/a> contains a NASA video from the launch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6691\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-320x213.jpg 320w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/launch-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day and something ago (what even is time?), late on Sunday morning, SuperBIT launched! On a Super Pressure Balloon from beautiful Wanaka, New Zealand. I have had few moments in between where I haven&#8217;t been frantic or grabbing a bit of precious sleep. So far things appear to be working well, and the balloon seems healthy. More to come. This news article contains a NASA video from the launch. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}