Details of the balloon and launch operations

Launch site:Centre de Lancement de Ballons CLBA, Aire Sur L'Adour, Landes, France  
  Launch team: CNES
Balloon: Open balloon (zero pressure)  
Serial number: -
Flight identification number: -
Campaign: ENVISAT 
Payload weight: -
Gondola weight: -
Overall weight: -

Payload sucesfully detached but the balloon was not destroyed and keep floating



Description of the payload or experiment

SALOMON (Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et Nox)

Responsable institution:  Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement (LPCE) / Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Principal Investigator:  Jean-Baptiste Renard

Is a balloon-borne UV-Visible spectrometer (350 - 700 nm) that uses the moon as the light source.

The instrument is dedicated to the measurement of the vertical distribution O3, NO2, NO3, OClO, OBrO and of the extinction coefficient of aerosols beetween 15 and 40 kms.

It's a totally autonomus instrument and weights 85 kgs.



Performance in flight and data obtained


The measurements were conducted during the balloon ascent from an altitude of 15 km up to 40 km, between 20h and 22h30 UTC, at a longitude of 0.6 E and latitude of 44.0 N in close coordination with an overpass of the ENVISAT satellite wich using an instrument called GOMOS has performed the observation near the same time and with a spatial coincidence of around 250 km.



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