The balloon-mounted SuperBIT telescope is slated for a stratospheric launch in April 2022.
Isaac Schultz
isaacschultz
Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.
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The electrospun nanofiber membrane filters out nearly all salt.