In the table below you will find the records of stratospheric balloons launched from different countries during 1995, 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 baseDateFlight DurationExperimentPayload landing place or cause of the failure
McMurdo1/824 dHIREGS III (HIgh REsolution Gamma-ray and hard x-ray Spectrometer)400 km southeast of launch site
Thule1/141,77 dPOVORBEX (POlar VORrtex Balloon Experiment)--- No Data ---
Thule1/200,54 dPOVORBEX (POlar VORrtex Balloon Experiment)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE1/21---OPTICAL PARTICLE COUNTER--- No Data ---
ESRANGE1/233 h 42 mELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE1/274 h 34 mASTRID (Air Sampling of TRacers for Identification of Dynamics)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE1/284 h 32 mRADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) + BALLAD (BALloon Limb Aerosol Detection) + BOCCAD (Balloon OCCultation Aerosol Detection) + OPC--- No Data ---
ESRANGE1/301 h 42 mPAYLOAD UNKNOWN--- No Data ---
Andoya1/30---SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE2/32 h 55 mTRIPLE (BONBON + Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer)between Oulu and Helsinki in Finland.
ESRANGE2/3---OPTICAL PARTICLE COUNTER + CAO--- No Data ---
Laramie (WY)2/9---AEROSOL COUNTER--- No Data ---
ESRANGE2/104 h 3 mAMON (Absorption de Minoritaires, Ozone et NOx)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE2/112 h 54 mOZONOXY--- No Data ---
ESRANGE2/116 h 28 mMIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)--- No Data ---
Thule2/111,23 dPOVORBEX (POlar VORrtex Balloon Experiment)--- No Data ---
Andoya2/11---SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE2/135 hELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique)--- No Data ---
Thule2/135,90 dPOVORBEX (POlar VORrtex Balloon Experiment)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE2/1431 mLPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/24 h 21 mRADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) + BALLAD (BALloon Limb Aerosol Detection) + BOCCAD (Balloon OCCultation Aerosol Detection) + OPC--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/32 h 14 mLPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/62 h 46 mCLO-BRO MEASUREMENTS--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/62 h 15 mSAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/73 h 56 mCRYOGENIC SAMPLER (MPAE)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/82 h 57 mASTRID (Air Sampling of TRacers for Identification of Dynamics)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/204 h 56 mBAMAS (Ballongetragenes Massenspektrometer)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/203 h 57 mELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/217 h 8 mMIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/212 h 20 mSAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
TIFR Hyderabad3/21---XMPC (Xenon filled Multi-anode Proportional Counter telescope)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/223 h 2 mLPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + CAESR (Cryogenic Atmospheric Emission Spectre-Radiometer)--- No Data ---
Andoya3/22---SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
Cachoeira Paulista (SP)3/23---DOUBLE PROBE ELECTRIC FIELD DETECTOR--- No Data ---
ESRANGE3/241 h 26 mCRANE LAUNCH SYSTEM TEST FLIGHT--- No Data ---
Laramie (WY)3/30---AEROSOL COUNTER--- No Data ---
Fort Sumner (NM)4/1---LONG DURATION BALLOON22 miles SE of Corona, New Mexico, US
Aire Sur L'Adour4/133 h 37 mBALLON BUS 95In Pau, 80 kms from the launch site.
TIFR Hyderabad4/19---LASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE5/122 h 55 mSAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
ESRANGE5/142 h 19 mHUYGENS SM2--- No Data ---
ESRANGE5/223 h 41 mSAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
Sanriku5/27---HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON TEST--- No Data ---
Palestine (TX)5/29---MSAM-1 (Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement)Aborted flight
Sanriku5/3016 hPERFORMANCE TEST OF NEW COMMAND RECEIVER--- No Data ---
Trapani6/??---PAYLOAD UNKNOWNBalloon failure
Palestine (TX)6/1F 9 h 44 mMSAM-1 (Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement)20 miles NW of Junction, Texas, US
Palestine (TX)6/1F 21 h 37 mPORTIA (Piggyback Room Temperature Instrument for Astronomy)7 miles NE of Sterling City, Texas, US
Sanriku6/89 h 20 mCRYOGENIC SAMPLERIn the Pacific Ocean 20 km SE of Ofunato Port, Iwate Prefecture
Palestine (TX)6/13F 7 h 42 mTRIP (Telescope Raffreddato Infrarosso Pallone)12 miles SW of Brady, Texas, US
Gap-Tallard6/207 h 29 mRADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon)--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard6/2210 h 28 mSAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard6/265 h 50 mPREDYN--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard6/276 h 39 mTechnological flight of a 402z balloon instrumented--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard6/301 h 51 mPREDYN--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard7/17 h 3 mSOPRANO 2--- No Data ---
Palestine (TX)7/8F 4 hBAM (Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement)17 miles SSW of Monohans, Texas, US
Kamchatka7/15130 hRUNJOB I (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program)In Markushiuno, Tyumen Oblast, Russia
Kamchatka7/19167 hRUNJOB II (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program)In Inza, Uliánovsk Oblast, Russia
Lynn Lake (MB)7/2612 hBESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer)65 miles NNW of Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada
Trapani7/2926 h 7 mHEAT (High Energy Astronomical Telescope)Payload impact in the Atlantic Ocean 500 km W of Portugal shore at coordinates 37°16' N - 14° 36"W. Never recovered
Palestine (TX)8/10---SOLAR CELL CALIBRATIONBalloon failure. Impact 12 miles W of Palestine, Texas, US
Trapani8/1021 h 7 mCRASH (Cosmic Rays And Strange Hadronic matter)In Munera, Albacete, Spain
Trapani8/20---ARD (Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator)On the Jonic Sea between the citys of Catania and Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
Wallops (VA)8/23---THUNDERSTORMS STUDIES10 miles SW of Wallops, Virgina, US
Lynn Lake (MB)8/23F 32 hHEAT (High-Energy Antimatter Telescope)3 miles N of Tadoule Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Wallops (VA)8/23---THUNDERSTORMS STUDIES22 miles NE of Williamsburg, Virgina, US
Lynn Lake (MB)8/26~ 4 hCOSMIC RAY EXPERIMENT8 miles NE of Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada
Sanriku8/304 hWATERPROOF GONDOLA TEST--- No Data ---
Palestine (TX)8/31F 4 hSOLAR CELL CALIBRATION12 miles S of Carbon, Texas, US
Sanriku9/22 hATMOSPHERIC OZONE OBSERVATON--- No Data ---
Palestine (TX)9/3F 6 h 46 mMAXIMA (Millimeter anisotropy experiment imaging array)--- No Data ---
Sanriku9/52 hFLIGHT PERFORMANCE TEST OF BALLOON--- No Data ---
Sanriku9/82 h 30 mHIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON TEST--- No Data ---
Sanriku9/13~ 14 hBETS (Balloon-borne Electron Telescope with Scintillating fibers)--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour9/183 h 5 mOPENING FLIGHT--- No Data ---
Laramie (WY)9/26---AEROSOL COUNTER--- No Data ---
Alice Springs9/2624 hAXEL (Astrophysical X-Ray Experimental Laboratory)47 km NE of Giles Weather Station, Western Australia
Fort Sumner (NM)9/2720 hSUPER-JACEE (Japanese-American Collaborative Emulsion Experiment)8 miles S of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, US
Fort Sumner (NM)9/2811 hSOFCAL (Scintillating Optical Fiber Calorimeter)33miles SW of Guymon, Oklahoma, US
Fort Sumner (NM)10/110 hSDS (Solar Disk Sextant)5 miles NNW of San Jon, Nuevo Mexico, US
Aire Sur L'Adour10/22 hSAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
Alice Springs10/424 hGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)13.5 miles N of Alice Springs, Australia
Aire Sur L'Adour10/53 h 19 mRADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) + BALLAD (BALloon Limb Aerosol Detection) + BOCCAD (Balloon OCCultation Aerosol Detection)--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour10/64 h 30 mLPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)--- No Data ---
Alice Springs10/634 hGRIP-2 (Gamma-Ray Imaging Payload)140 miles NW of Boulia, Queensland, Australia
Aire Sur L'Adour10/62 h 35 mPREDYN--- No Data ---
Fort Sumner (NM)10/614 h 30 mLAPEX (Large-Area Phoswich balloon Experiment for hard-X-ray astronomy)22 miles ESE of Roswell, Nuevo Mexico, US
Fort Sumner (NM)10/109 h 30 mUPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH5 miles W of Haskell, Texas, US
Aire Sur L'Adour10/123 h 2 mBALLAD (BALloon Limb Aerosol Detection) + BOCCAD (Balloon OCCultation Aerosol Detection)--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour10/122 h 15 mSAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour10/123 h 19 mSAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
Fort Sumner (NM)10/148 hHIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS17 miles NW of Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Alice Springs10/1732 hGRATIS (Gamma Ray Arcminute Telescope Imaging System)30 miles W of Ti Tree, Northern Territory, Australia
Aire Sur L'Adour10/181 h 27 mPREDYN--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour10/235 h 11 mBAMAS (Ballongetragenes Massenspektrometer)--- No Data ---
Alice Springs10/2535 hGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer) + PORTIA30 miles E of Alice Springs, Australia
Lauder11/7---AEROSOL COUNTER--- No Data ---
TIFR Hyderabad11/12---INFRARED ASTRONOMY--- No Data ---
León11/134 h 23 mOPENING FLIGHT--- No Data ---
Alice Springs11/149 h 30 mGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer) + PORTIA10 miles N of Alice Springs, Australia
Laramie (WY)11/21---AEROSOL COUNTER--- No Data ---
Baurú GLB (SP)11/22---SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
León11/233 h 27 mLPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)--- No Data ---
León11/235 h 32 mMACSIMS (Measurement of Atmospheric Constituents by Selective Ion Mass Spectrometry)--- No Data ---
Baurú GLB (SP)11/23---SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No Data ---
León12/12 h 50 mHASI (Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument) - COMAS SOLAIn Navarra (Spain) at coordinates 42º27'11"N, 1º28'47"W
León12/12 h 26 mINTERBOA TEST FLIGHT--- No Data ---
León12/23 h 27 mCEI--- No Data ---
León12/22 h 10 mCRANE LAUNCH TEST FLIGHT--- No Data ---
TIFR Hyderabad12/8F 6 h 30 mLASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment)--- No Data ---
Fort Sumner (NM)12/98 hXPER (X band Experiment)20 miles SSO of Lawton, Oklahoma, US
McMurdo12/1914 d 5 hJACEE 14 (Japanese-American Collaborative Emulsion Experiment)93 miles S of McMurdo, Antarctica

If you consider this website interesting or useful, you can help me to keep it up and running with a small donation to cover the operational costs. Just the equivalent of the price of a cup of coffee helps a lot.