It may be 4 to 6 hours before we can safely terminate HASP. The balloon is passing over very rough terrain and still traveling very slowly. While wandering aimlessly through the desert, however, we might as well do something productive. The Montana experiment has remained open since about 10:10 MDT yesterday and now has about 28 hours of exposure. We also powered experiments 4, 5, 6, and 9 back on at about 09:50 MDT this morning (after turning all payloads except 10 off at about 07:00 MDT), giving these payloads about 25.7 hours. All other payloads accumulated about 21.4 hours.
HASP is now out of ballast and, therefore, will not be able to keep altitude during sun set. Thus, I would imagine that one way or the other HASP will be down on the ground by early this evening.
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