Thursday, October 8, 2026

Mission #8: the debrief

Fleet numbers aren't available for this mission.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a city south of the equator with over 1 million people (metro).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mbuji-Mayi

Jet Stream (850 m): Lubumbashi, Antananarivo, Lusaka, Harare, Maputo, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Cordoba, Rosario, Bandung

Updraft (600 m): Montevideo, Luanda, Kinshasa, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Salvador, Brasilia, Adelaide, La Paz, Asuncion, Pretoria, Surabaya

Drifter (300 m): Lima, Santiago, Jakarta, Auckland, Brisbane, Perth, Durban

Decoy (150 m): Melbourne, Johannesburg, Cape Town

Ballast (100 m): Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Buenos Aires

2. Name a country with a coastline on the Red Sea.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Djibouti

Jet Stream (850 m): Jordan

Updraft (600 m): Eritrea, Israel

Drifter (300 m): Sudan, Yemen

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, Saudi Arabia

3. Name a sea or ocean that touches Russia.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Pechora Sea

Jet Stream (850 m): Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, White Sea, Chukchi Sea

Updraft (600 m): Sea of Okhotsk, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Sea of Azov

Drifter (300 m): Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Japan, Bering Sea

Ballast (100 m): Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Black Sea

4. Name a country that shares a land border with China.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Afghanistan

Updraft (600 m): Laos, Myanmar, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Drifter (300 m): North Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nepal, Kazakhstan

Ballast (100 m): India, Russia, Mongolia

5. Name a lake in Africa.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Natron

Jet Stream (850 m): Edward, Kariba, Tana

Updraft (600 m): Turkana, Albert, Kivu, Volta, Nasser

Drifter (300 m): Tanganyika, Malawi, Chad

Ballast (100 m): Victoria

6. Name a country that uses the euro.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kosovo

Jet Stream (850 m): Andorra, Montenegro

Updraft (600 m): Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria

Drifter (300 m): Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Finland

Decoy (150 m): Monaco, Vatican City, San Marino

Ballast (100 m): Germany, France, Italy, Spain

7. Name a country with more than 100 million people.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Vietnam

Updraft (600 m): Ethiopia, Philippines, Egypt, DR Congo

Drifter (300 m): Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico, Japan

Ballast (100 m): China, India, United States

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