Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 6/17/2010 at 20:30 utc
Launch site: Longyearbyen Airport, Svalbard, Norway
Balloon launched by: ASI / ARR
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Aerostar 30.000 m3
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 6/20/2010
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 72 h 33 m
Landing site: On Ellesmere Island, Canada
External references
- The SURECA BIT-10 Long Duration Balloon Mission: A Successful Qualification Test for a New Iridium Telemetry Publication Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, held in Hyére, France in October, 2011
Images of the mission
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