Mission
CSBF has a threefold mission:
- Provide maintenance, operations and logistics support for NASA's scientific balloon program and facilities.
- Provide sophisticated ground and flight systems for launch, control, data retrieval, commanding, and recovery of NASA's balloon missions.
- Perform research and development to advance the capabilities of NASA's suborbital programs.
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