In the table below you will find the records of stratospheric balloons launched from different countries during 1983, which are currently available in StratoCat's database. Each row displays essential information such as the launch base, date and time of launch, and, if known, the mission duration and landing site of the payload. Clicking on the experiment name will offer details about the scientific institutions involved, a summary of the experiment's purpose and results, and other relevant information on the balloon flight, including references and images. Clicking on the arrows at the top and the bottom of the table you can move to other year's tables.
| Launch base | Date | Flight Duration | Experiment | Payload landing place or cause of the failure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Alice Springs | 1/19 | 22 d | EOSCOR III (Extended Observation of Solar COsmic Radiation) | Lost over the Indian Ocean |
 Holloman AFB (NM) | 1/23 | 13 h 30 m | ASHCAN - CASSETTE SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 1/23 | 9 h 55 m | FIRS (Far InfraRed Spectrometer) | 8 miles W of Jena, Louisiana, US |
| Laramie (WY) | 1/28 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 2/12 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 2/18 | 5 h | DIGITAL COMMAND AND TELEMETRY TEST | 43 miles NE of New Bern, North Carolina, US |
 Christchurch | 3/7 | --- | EMA 1 (Electrodynamics of the Middle Atmosphere) | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 3/10 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Christchurch | 3/13 | --- | EMA 2 (Electrodynamics of the Middle Atmosphere) | --- No Data --- |
 Aire Sur L'Adour | 3/19 | --- | PACIMS (Passive Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry) | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 3/21 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
 Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 3/25 | 10 h | UTIC 83 (University of Tasmania / Imperial College 1983) | In Fazenda Sao Jose, Itaí (SP), Brazil |
 TIFR Hyderabad | 4/4 | 4 h 15 m | X-RAY STUDIES | --- No Data --- |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 4/6 | --- | X-RAY STUDIES | Control instrumentation failure. |
| Laramie (WY) | 4/8 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 4/16 | --- | VALIDATION OF SME (Solar Mesosphere Explorer) SATELLITE DATA | 35 miles SE of Vicksburg, Mississippi, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 4/16 | --- | INFRARED GRATING SPECTROMETER | 20 miles E of Jackson, Mississippi, US |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 4/20 | 5 h 45 m | UV SPECTROMETER | 34 miles NNE of Texico, Texas, US |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 4/30 | 6 h | FAR INFRARED TELESCOPE | Near Tauves, Auvernia region, France |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 5/2 | 3 h 30 m | IONIZATION MEASUREMENTS + IMAP (Indian Middle Atmosphere Program) | --- No Data --- |
| Alice Springs | 5/4 | 34 h | COSMIC RAY HEAVIES | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/5 | 7 h 40 m | FAR INFRARED EXPERIMENT | 8 miles W of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US |
| Alice Springs | 5/8 | 11 h | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | --- No Data --- |
| Alice Springs | 5/10 | 29 h | COSMIC RAY HEAVIES | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 5/13 | --- | SPECTROPHOTOMETER | --- No Data --- |
| Alice Springs | 5/13 | 25 h | ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY | --- No Data --- |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 5/16 | 11 h | BIMS (Balloon Borne Ion Mass Spectrometer) | 27 miles NNW of Hobbs, New Mexico, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/16 | --- | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 15 miles SE of Center, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/16 | 2 h | FIRS (Far InfraRed Spectrometer) | Balloon burst during ascent. Payload recovered 20 miles N of Nacogdoches, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/16 | --- | BIC - NPL GONDOLA | Ground abort launch. Payload come to rest in NSBF Launch Pad, Palestine, Texas, US |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 5/17 | --- | ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETER | --- No Data --- |
| Alice Springs | 5/18 | 13 h | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | --- No Data --- |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 5/20 | 7 h | SHARP (Stabilized High Altitude Research Platform) | 27 miles NNW of Roswell, New Mexico, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/21 | --- | COLLAR RESTRAINT TEST | NSBF Launch Pad, Palestine, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/22 | --- | COLLAR RESTRAINT TEST | NSBF Launch Pad, Palestine, Texas, US |
 Mendoza | 5/24 | --- | ALIR-II (Infrared Telescope) | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 5/25 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/25 | 14 h | FAR INFRARED EXPERIMENT | 10 miles N of Conroe, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/26 | --- | ENGINEERING TEST FLIGHT | Balloon failed. Payload landed 12 miles SW of Nacogdoches, Texas, US |
| Greenville (SC) | 5/28 | --- | X-RAY EXPERIMENT | 15 miles NE of Florence, Alabama, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/30 | --- | CRYOGEN GAS REPLENISHMENT | NSBF Launch Pad, Palestine, Texas, US |
 Watukosek | 6/1 | --- | LAUNCHER TEST | --- No Data --- |
| Watukosek | 6/5 | 3 h | TEST FLIGHT | 100 km W of Watukosek, Indonesia |
| Greenville (SC) | 6/11 | --- | X-RAY EXPERIMENT | 13 miles N of Ada, Oklahoma, US |
| Watukosek | 6/11 | --- | SOLAR ECLIPSE OBSERVATION | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 6/16 | 21 h 30 m | BALLOON MATERIAL TEST | 3 miles S of Jacksonville, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 6/17 | 15h 15 m | BMLS (Balloon-borne Microwave Limb Sounder) | 30 miles SE of Salt Flat, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 6/17 | --- | HIGH RESOLUTION IR SOLAR OBSERVATION | 23 miles E of Pecos, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 6/20 | --- | BIC - NPL GONDOLA | 35 miles E of El Paso, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 6/20 | 15 h | FIRS (Far InfraRed Spectrometer) | 25 miles SW of Pecos, Texas, US |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 6/21 | --- | BIMS (Balloon Borne Ion Mass Spectrometer) | Balloon burst |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 6/24 | 13 h | BIMS (Balloon Borne Ion Mass Spectrometer) | 13 miles SSE of Phoenix, Arizona, US |
| Gap-Tallard | 6/28 | 10 h | SIMBA (Solar Irradiance Monitoring from Balloons) | Payload landed in a long distance high voltage line 80 km NE of Aire sur L'Adour, Landes, France. Suffered no damage. |
| Laramie (WY) | 6/28 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
 Trapani | 7/1 | 21 h 40 m | ALIOS 83 | Near Sevilla, Spain |
| Palestine (TX) | 7/9 | 10 h 15 m | COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT | 25 miles W of Fort Stockton, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 7/10 | --- | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 20 miles of Lake Whitney, Texas, US |
 Thompson (MB) | 7/10 | 4 h 10 m | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | --- No Data --- |
| Trapani | 7/11 | 20 h 15 m | TELEMAQUE | Near Sevilla, Spain |
| Palestine (TX) | 7/12 | 5 h | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | 45 miles NE of Abilene, Texas, US |
| Roswell (NM) | 7/17 | GALILEO PROBE PARACHUTE TEST | Over White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, US, USA | |
| Palestine (TX) | 7/18 | --- | MSBS (Mass Spectrometer-Beam System) | 15 miles NW of Carlsbad, New Mexico, US |
| Mendoza | 7/19 | --- | GENESIS II | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 7/22 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Roswell (NM) | 7/23 | --- | GALILEO PATHFINDER | --- No Data --- |
| Gimli (MB) | 7/24 | 8 h | TDLAS (Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrometer) | --- No Data --- |
| Roswell (NM) | 7/24 | --- | GALILEO PATHFINDER | --- No Data --- |
| Roswell (NM) | 7/25 | --- | GALILEO PROBE PARACHUTE TEST | Over White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, US, USA |
| Trapani | 7/26 | 20 h 27 m | ELENA | Near Sevilla, Spain |
| Gimli (MB) | 8/18 | ~ 10 h | LIMB-SCANNING RADIOMETER | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 8/24 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 8/25 | --- | ISUS (Imaging Stratospheric Ultraviolet Spectrometer) | 5 miles NE of Lowake, Texas, US |
 Sanriku | 8/28 | ~ 6 h | GRAB SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
| Sanriku | 8/30 | --- | AEROSOL SAMPLING | --- No Data --- |
| Sanriku | 9/2 | --- | FAR INFRARED OBSERVATIONS | --- No Data --- |
| Sanriku | 9/4 | --- | SOLAR TELESCOPE | --- No Data --- |
| Sanriku | 9/6 | --- | MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENT | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/9 | --- | MATRIX ISOLATION + MICROWAVE RADIOMETER + MAST-BREWER SONDE | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/10 | 9 h 30 m | CRYOGENIC WHOLE-AIR SAMPLER (KFA) | Near Aurillac, Auvergne region, France |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/10 | 9 h | CRYOGENIC SAMPLER (MPAE) | SW of Aurillac, Auvergne region, France |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/13 | --- | UV SPECTROMETER + MAST-BREWER SONDE | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/14 | --- | MULTI INSTRUMENTAL GONDOLA | --- No Data --- |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 9/17 | --- | DUCKY I | Balloon failure. Aborted flight |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/17 | 13 h 45 m | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/18 | --- | ION SPECTROMETER + AEROSOL PHOTOGRAPHY | --- No Data --- |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 9/19 | --- | DUCKY I | Ground abort. No flight |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/20 | --- | MATRIX ISOLATION + MICROWAVE RADIOMETER + MAST-BREWER SONDE | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/20 | --- | CHEMILUMINESCENT SONDE | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 9/21 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/22 | 5 h | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 7 miles S of Jacksonville, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/23 | 59 h | JACEE 4 (Japanese-American Collaborative Emulsion Experiment) | 13 miles W of Carlsbad, New Mexico, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/23 | ~3 h | DGT (Directional Gamma-Ray Telescope) | 4 miles NE of Crocket, Texas, US |
| Sanriku | 9/23 | --- | GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/23 | --- | INFRARED SPECTROMETER | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/24 | --- | MULTI INSTRUMENTAL GONDOLA | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/26 | --- | CRYOGEN GAS REPLENISHMENT | 5 miles N of Tomball, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/26 | --- | FAR INFRARED MEASUREMENTS | Balloon failure. Payload landed 1 mile S of Palestine, Texas, US |
| Sanriku | 9/26 | --- | STRATOSPHERIC TURBULENCE STUDIES | --- No Data --- |
| Sanriku | 9/28 | --- | ARGOS SATELLITE LINK TEST | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/28 | --- | SPECTROMETER UV & VISUAL + SPECTROMETER UV + MAST-BREWER SONDE | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/28 | 9 h | MICROWAVE RADIOMETER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/29 | --- | BELL/SANDIA GAMMA RAY TELESCOPE | 4 miles S of York, Alabama, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/30 | 12 h | HEGCS (High Energy Gas Cerenkov Spectrometer) | 24 miles N of Shreveport, Louisiana, US |
| Mendoza | 10/5 | 9 H | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | --- No Data --- |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 10/5 | 7 h 15 m | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | 55 miles NE of Lubbock, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/5 | --- | X-RAY ASTRONOMY | Baloon burst at 53.000 ft. Payload recovered 10 miles W of Lufkin, Texas, US |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 10/5 | --- | PACIMS (Passive Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry) | --- No Data --- |
| White Sands (NM) | 10/6 | 9 h 15 m | BIMS (Balloon Borne Ion Mass Spectrometer) | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/10 | 8 h 20 m | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 35 miles S of Monroe, Louisiana, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/10 | 7 h 48 m | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 1 mile N of Yazoo City, Mississippi, US |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 10/11 | 7 h 20 m | DUCKY Ia | Lovington, New Mexico, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/11 | --- | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 19 miles NW of Lufkin, Texas, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/13 | 10 h 10 m | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 5 miles W of Natchitoches, Louisiana, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/16 | --- | BLISS (Balloon-borne Laser In-Situ Sensor) | 28 miles NE of Monroe, Louisiana, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/18 | --- | TEST BALLOON MATERIAL | 8 miles NE of Bastrop, Louisiana, US |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 10/20 | --- | RADIATION MEASUREMENTS + ELECTRO-DYNAMICS EXPERIENCE + IMAP (Indian Middle Atmosphere Program) | Balloon failure at tropopause level |
| Laramie (WY) | 10/21 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
 Paardefontein | 10/21 | --- | TECHNOLOGICAL FLIGHT - MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS | Near Brazilian coast |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 10/23 | F 30 m | SCRIBE (Stratospheric CRyogenic Interferometer Balloon Experiment) | 24.6 miles SE of Roswell, New Mexico, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/24 | --- | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | Balloon failure. Payload landed 3 miles NE of Alto, Texas, Us |
| Paardefontein | 10/26 | --- | ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/27 | 8 h | BALLOON-BORNE LIDAR | 33 miles SW of Jackson, Mississippi, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/27 | --- | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 1 mile S of New Lexington, Alabama, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 10/28 | 13 h 50 m | SIRIS (Stratospheric InfraRed Interferometer Spectrometer) | 25 miles ENE of Bugalusa, Louisiana, US |
| Paardefontein | 10/30 | 7 d | TECHNOLOGICAL FLIGHT - GREAT VOLUME MIR | --- No Data --- |
| São Manuel (SP) | 10/30 | --- | FIGARO (French Italian Gamma Ray Observatory) | No Flight. Balloon failed during inflation |
| São Manuel (SP) | 11/1 | 14 h | AGLAE 83 | Near Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 11/7 | 8 h 30 m | SHAD (Stellar Horizon Atmospheric Dispersion) | --- No Data --- |
| Alice Springs | 11/7 | 34 h | COSMIC RAY IRON NUCLEI | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 11/11 | 10 h 45 m | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 34 miles SE of Jackson, Mississippi, US |
| São Manuel (SP) | 11/13 | ~ 1 h | POKER 83B | Balloon failure. Payload recovered from a small creek near the launch site |
| Palestine (TX) | 11/16 | --- | COSMIC BACKGROUD | 20 miles E of Dothan, Alabama, US |
| Palestine (TX) | 11/16 | --- | TEST MATERIAL | 35 miles S of McComb, Kansas, US |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 11/21 | 4 h 40 m | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | --- No Data --- |
| Paardefontein | 11/21 | 7 d | WATER VAPOUR + RADIOMETER + ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES | In the Atlantic Ocean |
| Laramie (WY) | 11/22 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| São Manuel (SP) | 11/23 | --- | FIGARO (French Italian Gamma Ray Observatory) | Payload destroyed |
| Paardefontein | 12/3 | 19 d | WATER VAPOUR + RADIOMETER + ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES | In the Pacific Ocean at 170º Long. East |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 12/12 | 8 h 30 m | TICAL - X-RAY TELESCOPE | --- No Data --- |
| Christchurch | 12/12 | --- | EMA 3 (Electrodynamics of the Middle Atmosphere) | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 12/15 | 3 h | RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) | 150 km NE from Aire Sur L'Adour, France |
| Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 12/20 | 11 h | GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETER | In Santa Fe do Sul, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 12/21 | --- | X-RAY STUDIES | Balloon burst al tropopause. |
| Christchurch | 12/21 | --- | EMA 4 (Electrodynamics of the Middle Atmosphere) | --- No Data --- |
| Christchurch | 12/26 | --- | EMA 5 (Electrodynamics of the Middle Atmosphere) | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 12/29 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
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