Wrapping Up Project HALO 2019
Mission Success!
Almost ready for launch!
A long-overdue update
Welcome to Project HALO!
Purdue's High-Altitude Lafayette Observatory (HALO) project is a collaborative engagement project between the university and high schools in the surrounding community. The purpose of this partnership is to provide a unique form of experiential learning in the applied sciences through a student-led engineering design project.
Originally conceived as a way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Project HALO is now in its second year of building a high-altitude balloon payload to perform scientific observations of the upper atmosphere. The payload will ascend to the stratosphere, taking measurements to characterize the atmospheric conditions along the flight path before returning via parachute.
The team consists of students from Harrison, McCutcheon, and West Lafayette High Schools, working at Purdue University with the assistance of graduate students and staff in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. You can learn more about each team member on the Our People page, or follow our progress through the regular updates posted to the News page.