| Launch base | Date | Flight Duration | Experiment | Payload landing place or cause of the failure |
ESRANGE | 1/24 | 3 h 24 m | FIRS-2 (far infrared Fourier transform spectrometer) | North of Valvtrasket lake, in Norrbotten, Sweden |
ESRANGE | 2/7 | ~ 2 h | MKIV | East of Talinnen, in Norrbotten, Sweden |
ESRANGE | 2/22 | ~ 1 h | MkIV Interferometer | --- No Data --- |
Tortoli | 2/24 | 3 h | USV (Unmanned Space Vehicle) - CASTORE | In the Mediterranean sea |
ESRANGE | 3/5 | 8 d | SUPERPRESSURE BALLOON | Between Iceland and Norway |
ESRANGE | 3/7 | 4 d | SUPERPRESSURE BALLOON | Between Iceland and Greenland |
ESRANGE | 3/12 | 5 d | SUPERPRESSURE BALLOON | In Labrador, Canada |
Hyderabad | 3/21 | 4 h 23 m | LASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 3/28 | ~ 3 h 30 m | BEXUS V (Balloon Experiment for University Students) + ELINK | East of Rovaniemi, Finland |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/9 | 5 h 43 m | STRATOFILM SF-450 / 40L (Technological Flight) | East of Logan, New Mexico, US, USA |
Sanriku | 5/18 | 2 m | TECHNOLOGICAL FLIGHT OF A BALLOON MADE OF ULTRA THIN MATERIAL | 500 Mts from the launch base. |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/27 | 26 h | HERO (High Energy Replicated Optics) | Near the New Mexico Arizona border, USA |
Sanriku | 5/29 | 4 h 25 m | BOV-2 (Balloon-based Operation Vehicle) | On the sea 30 km E of Kamaishi, Japan |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 6/2 | 27 h | TIGRE (Tracking and Imaging Gamma Ray Experiment) | 24 miles SE of Holbrook, Arizona, US |
Sanriku | 6/4 | 7 h 57 m | CRYOGENIC ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLER | 35 km from the shoreline of Kamaishi, Japan |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 6/5 | 4 h 22 m | 37H (Technological Flight) | 41 miles from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, US |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 6/7 | --- | SALOMON N-2 (Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et Nox) | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 6/15 | 8 h 45 m | FITE (Far-Infrared Interferometric Telescope Experiment) - Systems Test | In the Pacific Ocean, 60 km from Iwate |
Palestine (TX) | 6/21 | 9 h 20 m | GRAPE (Gamma Ray Polarimeter Experiment) + CASTER (Coded Aperture Survey Telescope for Energetic Radiation) | 32 miles Southwest of Post, Texas, USA |
Palestine (TX) | 7/11 | --- | 37H BALLOON TEST | Aborted launch |
Palestine (TX) | 7/19 | --- | LEE (Low Energy Electrons) + MIP (Micro-Instrumentation Package) test | --- No Data --- |
Palestine (TX) | 7/23 | 6 h 35 m | FIREBALL (Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon) | 38 miles SE of Odessa, Texas, USA |
Sanriku | 8/29 | 5 h 5 m | POINTING SYSTEM TEST | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 8/30 | 3 h 20 m | PERFORMANCE TEST OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL FALL SYSTEM + FUEL CELL FOR SUPER PRESSURE BALLOON | In the Pacific Ocean, 20 km from Iwate. Balloon near Towadako |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 8/30 | 5 h 52 m | 37H (Technological Flight) | 80 miles W-SW of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, US |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 9/2 | ~ 19 h | HASP (High Altitude Student Platform) | Near Poston, Arizona, USA |
Sanriku | 9/13 | 3 h 30 m | OZONE OBSERVATION + CRISTAL BAROMETER TEST + GRAVITY WAVES | In the Ocean, near 100 kms from the shore line in front at Izaki, Japan |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 9/13 | ~ 17 h | SBI (Solar Bolometric Imager) | East of Winslow, Arizona, USA |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 9/22 | 31 h 24 m | MkIV Fourier Transform InfraRed | NW of Crownpoint, New Mexico, US, USA |
Cape Midia AFB | 9/27 | --- | STABILO 1B | In the Black Sea off the Romanian shore |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 10/3 | ~ 9 h | SUNRISE | Between the cities of Hartley and Dalhart, Texas, USA |
Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 11/10 | ~ 2 h | TELECOMMAND AND TELEMETRY TEST | Bairro Colinas, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil |
Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 11/19 | ~ 3 h | TELECOMMAND AND TELEMETRY TEST PLUS FLIGHT PATH ANALYSIS | São Lourenço, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 11/20 | ~ 2 h | PBJ300 FLIGHT TEST | Engenheiro Passos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
McMurdo | 12/19 | 28 d 21 h 53 m | CREAM III (Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass) | 177 nautic miles SW from McMurdo Antarctic base |
Hyderabad | 12/21 | 3 h 24 m | DEVELOPMENTAL FLIGHT (D-12) | --- No Data --- |
McMurdo | 12/23 | 30 d 15 h 37 m | POLAR-BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer - POLAR VERSION) | 225 nautic miles SE of the Patriot Hills Station. |
McMurdo | 12/26 | 19 d 10 h 43 m | ATIC-4 (Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter) | 231 nautic miles NE of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica |
Syowa | 12/30 | --- | JT-SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
Syowa | 12/30 | --- | JT-SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |