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Monday,17 Jan
Congratulations to all! CREAM broke the LDB duration record of 31 days and 20 hrs last night, January 16, at ~7:40 pm EST. The earlier record was set by the TIGER flight in the 2001-2002 campaign.Current projection of the trajectory, at the current speed,is for CREAM to be back to the Ross Ice Shelf this weekend friday/saturday.Enjoy the rest of the ride and buckle up for the landing.
ES
Friday,14 Jan
Tick tick tick.CREAM is about to break the record. Just two more days to go for the new record! Keep praying and wishing for the balloon trajectory to stay with the 78 deg latitude and to have a nice clear calm landing day in about a week for a perfect recovery near McMurdo :)
ES
Wedesday,5 Jan
The balloon trajectory still looks good for the 3rd round.If the course of the balloon stays, by extrapolation, we may have higher probability to get the payload back closer to McMurdo after the 3rd round. From the Science Instrument view point, there seems to be no show stopper. Everyone is reporting good performance of the system, and hope for a continued flight as long as possible.NSBF & WFF support the extended flight, and morale is high. Since the termination should occur in 2-3 days, if anyone has any compelling reason to terminate this round, better let me know asap. Otherwise, we are going for the 3rd circumnavigation. NSBF knows that we want to get the data disk back minimum and hopefully the whole instrument as one piece. As always, there is no guarantee in the recovery and the support will be on a best effort basis. Just in case you need to know exactly what to wish/pray for, we want to get the payload back < 100 nautical miles from McMurdo after > 32 days flight :)
ES
