| Launch site | Date | Scientific Experiment | Payload landing site |
 | Juazeiro do Norte (CE) | ??/?? | -- No Data -- | No Data | | | |
 | Trapani (IT) | ??/?? | -- No Data -- | In Sicily, Italy |  | | |
| INPE, SJ dos Campos (SP) | 3/15 | SOURCE | In Sao Jorge - Paraná | | | |
 | Hyderabad (IN) | 3/30 | GAMMA-RAY STUDIES | --- No data --- | | | |
| INPE, SJ dos Campos (SP) | 3/31 | SOURCE 2 | In Cosmópolis - Sao Paulo | | | |
| Hyderabad (IN) | 4/8 | GAMMA-RAY STUDIES | --- No data --- | | | |
| Hyderabad (IN) | 4/9 | GAMMA-RAY STUDIES | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Mendoza (AR) | 4/11 | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | Payload rescued the next day in San Francisco del Monte de Oro (San Luis province) 130 km of the launch site. | | | |
| Hyderabad (IN) | 4/12 | EARTH ALBEDO OBSERVATION | --- No data --- | | | |
| Mendoza (AR) | 4/17 | Observation of atmospheric and solar rapid neutrons and gamma radiation using a collimated sodium iodide detector with orientable gondola. | Payload rescued the next day in Comechingones hills in Cordoba province (325 km east of launch site). | | | |
| Hyderabad (IN) | 4/21 | X-RAY STUDIES | --- No data --- | | | |
| Mendoza (AR) | 4/30 | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | Payload rescued the next day near Nogoyá (Entre Rios province) 825 km east of launch site. | | | |
 | Holloman AFB (NM) | 5/29 | BAMM (Balloon Altitude Mosaic Measurements) | No Data | | | |
| Eielson AFB (AK) | 6/?? | A passive detector array designed to obtain charge and energy spectra of primary cosmic rays in the region of Fe peak. The design includes a stack of nine modules assembled in three different ways. | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Gap (FR) | 6/14 | SIMBA 79 | --- No data --- | | | |
| Trapani (IT) | 8/?? | -- No data -- | near the city of Granada in Spain. | | | |
 | Svalbard (NO) | 8/13 | WATCH (Wide Angle Telescope for Cosmic Hard X-Rays) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Trapani (IT) | 8/26 | HXR79 | near the city of Cordoba in Spain. | | | |
| Mendoza (AR) | 10/7 | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | Payload rescued near Tilisarao town (San Luis province) 337 km from launch site. | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 10/8 | BAMM (Balloon Altitude Mosaic Measurements) | No Data | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 10/10 | SMITHSONIAN INFRARED BALLOON BORNE TELESCOPE | Payload retrieved near Shreveport, Louisiana | | | |
| Mendoza (AR) | 10/16 | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | Payload rescued in La Unión (San Luis province) 362 km from launch site.. | | | |
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