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Launched in 1957, the first balloon-borne telescope (Stratoscope I) featured a 12-inch primary mirror and a 35mm movie camera. The floating observatory was used to study turbulence in the Sun’s photosphere from 80,000 feet above Earth’s surface, avoiding the obscuring effect of Earth's atmosphere.


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