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)  
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Campaign: No Data 
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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

 

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