Oof, NASA had to ditch the EUSO-2 superpressure balloon payload in the Pacific. My condolences to everyone on the team...

"The open-ocean flight termination procedure makes use of the two-ton flight payload as an anchor to pull the entire balloon flight train to the bottom of the ocean as quickly as possible"

https://blogs.nasa.gov/superpressureballoon/2023/05/14/nasa-super-pressure-balloon-mission-terminated-due-to-anomaly/

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