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It's one small step for rodents, and one giant leap for the nation's hopes to send the first Singaporean to space.
InGenius — the local tech start-up behind the interstellar project — have completed a successful experiment in which they sent three rats to space using stratospheric balloons. All three rats survived the flight, Channel NewsAsia reports.
The rats were contained in a prototype capsule and crossed the Armstrong limit (the altitude with an atmospheric pressure so low that water boils at the normal temperature of the human body), flying for 110 minutes by way of balloons. The flight achieved an altitude of 29.5km.
The experiment was conducted in Hyderabad, India, as preliminary test run before the team initiates plans to send a Singaporean to space via capsule on May 12 in Alice Springs, Australia.
Photo: Lim Seng via Channel NewsAsia
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It's one small step for rodents, and one giant leap for the nation's hopes to send the first Singaporean to space.
InGenius — the local tech start-up behind the interstellar project — have completed a successful experiment in which they sent three rats to space using stratospheric balloons. All three rats survived the flight, Channel NewsAsia reports.
The rats were contained in a prototype capsule and crossed the Armstrong limit (the altitude with an atmospheric pressure so low that water boils at the normal temperature of the human body), flying for 110 minutes by way of balloons. The flight achieved an altitude of 29.5km.
The experiment was conducted in Hyderabad, India, as preliminary test run before the team initiates plans to send a Singaporean to space via capsule on May 12 in Alice Springs, Australia.
Photo: Lim Seng via Channel NewsAsia