Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 8/29/1998 at 17:44 utc
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon model 400z Zodiac - 400.000 m3
Balloon serial number: 400Z Nº 77
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/31/1998 at 14:52 utc
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 45 h
Campaign: SABINE (Summer Arctic Balloon International Experiment)
Payload weight: 1068 kgs
Gondola weight: 269 kgs
External references
- Interboa 2: A Balloon Campaign in the Scandinavian Auroral Zone Proceedings of the 14th ESA Symposium, ESA-SP, Vol. 437, 1999., p.375
- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
- The 1998 INTERBOA (Balloon Observtions of Auroras) Campaign Washington University website
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