Successful advanced JAXA drop test performed at Esrange Space Center
Esrange Space Center 9 May, 2011Preparations before launch.Launch.Heading for 35 km.Press imagesSuccessful advanced JAXA drop test performed at Esrange Space CenterOn 7 May at 05.48 local time, an advanced balloon drop test of a new technique for supersonic transportation was performed at Esrange Space Center, SSCs operational base for space activities.A team from JAXA, Japan, has been working at Esrange since the end of March to prepare two heavy lift drop tests with stratospheric balloons. JAXA is conducting research in silent supersonic transportation technologies with the