BlUE

The High-Altitude Ballooning programme began at

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, in the

year 2011 with the primary purpose of developing

and flying low-cost scientic payloads on a balloon-

borne platform. Some of the science goals are studies

of the phenomena occurring in the upper atmosphere,

of airglow and zodiacal light, and observations of ex-

tended astronomical objects such as, for example,

comets, from near space (20 to 30 km).