Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 2/8/1999 at 12.25
Launch site: Arena Arctica, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Super Pressure Balloon 10 mts
Flight identification number: BPS 10 Nº 21
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 2/8/1999
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 8 h
Campaign: THESEO (Third European Stratospheric Experiment on Ozone) take place during 1998-99 to improve the understanding of the causes of ozone depletion over Europe and other mid-latitude regions. It involved more than 400 scientists from over 20 countries.
Payload weight: 22 kgs
Gondola weight: 16 kgs
External references
- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
- Long Duration Balloon Flights in the Arctic: a Lagrangian Experiment European Rocket and Balloon Programs and Related Research, Proceedings of the 14th ESA Symposium, p 603
- Pressurised Balloon Systems: Results of Ecuador 1998 and THESEO 1999 Campaigns 14th ESA Symposium held 31 May-3 June, 1999 in Potsdam, Germany
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