Provides balloon flight test support for research and development payloads for contractors, universities, and government agencies. And extends the capabilities and versatility of balloons as atmospheric platforms.

Balloon Instrumentation encompasses telemetry, flight control, flight safety, data acquisition and display, inflight tracking, communications and navigation. Personnel maintain and operate fixed and mobile facilities for radio command communications, telemetry and flight tracking. Radio equipped vehicles and hand-held radios are available for mission support. Special steerable antennas and auto-track antennas are available. Our facilities are extremely versatile. Both Frequency Modulation (FM) and Pulse-Code Modulation (PCM) data systems are available with variety of computer controlled display and decommutation equipment, which allows the scientific user immediate, access to real-time data from balloon-borne experiments.