Mesospheric Explorer 2 Launch

2 Responses to “Mesospheric Explorer 2 Launch”

  1. Brad Heisler says:

    That sure is a light fill on the ME II balloons.

  2. Karl Hallowell says:

    We were trying both to overtake Tandem and reach a pretty high altitude. Neither worked out. We reached launch late and ME 2 came down prematurely. The shear layers (up to around 60k feet) that shook the Tandem vehicle caused one of the balloons to burst early.