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: -
Payload weight: -
Gondola weight: -
Overall weight: -

The balloon was launched at 10 am local time on September 22th, 2005 using the dynamic method with help of an auxiliary balloon.

No additional data available.

Description of the payload or experiment

OPENING CAMPAIGN TECHNOLOGICAL FLIGHT

Responsable institution: CNES
Principal Investigator: -

At the beginning of each launch campaign, the technicians of the balloons division of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) perform an initial launch called "opening flight" wich technological aim is to test several systems to be used during the rest of the campaign.

Sometimes, this flights are used to send aloft small scientific experiments.