The Hanover High School High Altitude Balloon Experiments and Technology (HABET) team is a student-led STEM research group based in Hanover, New Hampshire. Our students design, build, and launch high-altitude balloon payloads that fly above 95,000 feet, carrying experiments to the edge of near space.

Students engineer, launch, recover, and analyze high-altitude balloon missions that carry scientific experiments to the edge of space. The program gives students the chance to do meaningful research while learning how science and engineering work in the real world

What we have been up to...

HABET has grown into an active near-space research program with both national and international connections. Our team was one of only five high school teams selected for NASA’s Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, launching stratospheric missions during the 2023 annular eclipse in Oregon and the 2024 total solar eclipse in Vermont.

More recently, HABET students have expanded into solar maximum and space weather research through Project HERA, a multi-institution ballooning collaboration focused on the upper atmosphere and cosmic radiation. Students now build and test advanced payload systems, develop custom flight computers, and contribute data to larger scientific efforts.

Coming August 2026