Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 2/9/2000 at 12.56
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 2/9/2000
Campaign: THESEO 2000
External references
- An overview of the SOLVE/THESEO 2000 campaign Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), Volume 107, Issue D20, pp. SOL 1-1
- Calibration and quality assessment of DESCARTES: grabsampler for stratospheric tracers Doctoral thesis by Arvelius, Johan, Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Space Science (2005
- Calibration and quality assessment of DESCARTES: grabsampler for stratospheric tracers Doctoral thesis by Arvelius, Johan, Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Space Science (2005
- Climatology of the stratospheric BrO vertical distribution by balloon-borne UV-visible spectrometry Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), Volume 107, Issue D24, pp. ACH 23-1
- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
Images of the mission
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