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High-altitude balloons in near space offer the possibility of affordable scientific experimentation and hardware testing for outer space missions. In this paper we present a novel, low cost high-altitude balloon system that achieves multi-day flight using inexpensive latex balloons by automatically venting lifting gas and dispensing ballast to maintain altitude. Traditionally, superpressure balloons...