The Super Pressure Balloon of the American Space Agency, NASA developed a leak and the agency was forced to terminate its flight.

The flight was terminated after one third of its planned flight and landed on a national park in Australia. The aviation agency's Wallops Flight Facility said that it was pleased to announce that the balloon made a near-circumnavigation in 32 days even as the flight was originally meant for 100 days.

The space agency's announcement states that, “Controllers detected a leak developing in the balloon and for safety, issued flight termination commands at 11:03 p.m. April 27 EDT
over a remote area near the Queensland and New South Wales border just east of Australia’s Sturt National Park.”

The balloon was launched form New Zealand's Wanaka Airport on March 26.The heavy lift balloon achieved one of its scientific aims as it was able to maintain an altitude of 110,000 feetthrough the flight. NASA said that the most heavy lift balloons can only rise by as much as 45,000 feet during their flights. The Super Pressure Balloon was made form 22 acres of material and filled with helium. It could carry up to 8,000 pounds of scientific payloads. The mission concluded with the balloon carrying 5,000 poundsof instruments.