Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 3/1/2000 at 3.36
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon model 100z Zodiac - 100.000 m3
Balloon serial number: 100Z Nº 19
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 3/1/2000 at ~ 8.30
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 4 h 48 m
Campaign: THESEO 2000
Payload weight: 936 kgs
Gondola weight: 536 kgs
External references
- An overview of the SOLVE/THESEO 2000 campaign Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), Volume 107, Issue D20, pp. SOL 1-1
- Defining the polar vortex edge from an N2O:potential temperature correlation J. Geophys. Res., 107( D20), 8268
- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
- The isotopic composition of methane in the stratosphere: high-altitude balloon sample measurements Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 1328713304, 2011
- THESEO 2000 web site at NILU server
- Tracer-based determination of vortex descent in the 1999/2000 Arctic winter J. Geophys. Res., 107( D20), 8279
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