The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular resolution. BLAST-TNG flew from the Long Duration Balloon Facility in Antarctica in January 2020. Despite the short flight duration, the instrument worked very well and is providing significant information about each subsystem that will be invaluable for future balloon missions. In this contribution, we discuss the performance of telescope and gondola.
@article{arxiv.2012.01039,
title = {In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform},
author = {Gabriele Coppi and Peter A. R. Ade and Peter C. Ashton and Jason E. Austermann and Erin G. Cox and Mark J. Devlin and Bradley J. Dober and Valentina Fanfani and Laura M. Fissel and Nicholas Galitzki and Jiansong Gao and Samuel Gordon and Christopher E. Groppi and Gene C. Hilton and Johannes Hubmayr and Jeffrey Klein and Dale Li and Nathan P. Lourie and Ian Lowe and Hamdi Mani and Philip Mauskopf and Christopher McKenney and Federico Nati and Giles Novak and Giampaolo Pisano and L. Javier Romualdez and Adrian Sinclair and Juan D. Soler and Carole Tucker and Joel Ullom and Michael Vissers and Caleb Wheeler and Paul A. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01039},
year = {2021}
}
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Submitted to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII