Testing of the world's first reusable stratospheric platform for the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route research was successful, press service of the Murmansk Arctic University (MAU) told TASS. "It is for the first time ever that Russian scientists have successfully launched a reusable stratospheric platform in the Arctic - the first development of the kind, designed to monitor the situation along the Northern Sea Route, to conduct environmental monitoring, and to provide communications in the Arctic," the university's press service said. He also managers the Program for the Environmental Monitoring System Using Stratospheric Platforms at High Latitudes. And what's especially valuable is that participants in the Icebreaker of Knowledge expedition were not just observers, they were directly involved in the project." About the Murmansk Arctic UniversityThe Murmansk Arctic University, created as a merger of two of biggest universities in the Murmansk Region, has received over 1 billion rubles ($12 million) to establish a Coastal Training Center and to upgrade the Maritime Conventional Training Center.