BEST Labbers Danny Wilson and Julien Caubel are working on a black carbon-sensing platform that will contain a low cost nano aethalometer and be launched from high altitude balloons.The first successful launch of the black carbon-sensing balloon platform (without the aethalomiter as it is still under development) was launched from IIT Kanpur this last Thursday, September 25th. The project was developed in partnership with Professor Sachi Tripathi’s lab at IIT Kanpur and the other team members from India are: Abhinav Saksena and Advait Kumar at IIT Delhi and Vipul Lalchandi at IIT Kanpur. Danny Wilson is in India for a year funded by a Fulbright-NehruFellowship. See video of the launch.