Eclipser Terminus (ET)
Friday, November 14th, 2025
>> ET is an independent project – unique in the world; this idea belongs to Mariusz Krukar and has never been implemented anywhere, at any time.
>> The project belongs to the team behind the Eclipser-1 stratospheric flight, a mission into the shadow cone of a total solar eclipse in the Earth’s stratosphere – unique at the time, in 2012.
In brief:
>> WORLD PREMIERE – Launch of a Gliding Wing into the Total Solar Eclipse Cone, AFTER the Shadow Cone Leaves EARTH for OUTER SPACE.
>> A world first: the interception of the shadow cone will take place after the eclipse has ended on the ground — about 600 km beyond the ground-level terminator line of the eclipse. No one has EVER attempted anything like this before!
>> The interception of the Moon’s shadow cone will occur when the Sun has already set about 25 minutes earlier, lying approximately 5 degrees below the horizon.
>> The interception will be performed using a gliding wing that will be released at an altitude of 35 km in the stratosphere, lifted by a helium balloon.
>> The launch will take place from the western part of Sicily, and the wing will glide across the Mediterranean Sea toward a point located roughly 50 km southwest of Marsala/Sicily, in the direction of Africa, within the stratosphere.
>> The interception will occur at an altitude of 33–34 km, where the wing will still be able to see the Sun about 1 degree above the horizon, beyond the Earth’s curvature.
