Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 8/2/1999 at 20:22 utc
Launch site: Base di Lancio Luigi Broglio, Trapani, Sicily, Italy
Balloon launched by: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/3/1999
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): ~ 14 h
Landing site: Near Nerpio, a town in the Sierra de Segura, Albacete province of Huelva, Spain.
Transmediterranean flight.
External references
- GPSR-MEBEX Institut dEstudis Espacials de Catalunya (via Archive.Org)
- Transmediterranean flights, in the edge of two centuries Advances in Space Research Volume 33, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 15941599
Images of the mission
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