Stratospheric balloons launched in 1995

In the table below you will find the records of stratospheric balloons launched from different countries and places during 1995, which are currently available in StratoCat's database. Each row shows basic data about the launch base from which departed, date and time of the launch, and if available the duration of the mission and the site of termination or landing place of the payload.

Regarding the kind of payload or experiment transported in each balloon mission, if you click the experiment name a text will be displayed showing the name of the scientific institutions involved in that mission, a brief resume of the purpose of the experiment carried onboard as well the scientific results obtained, and other information of relevance from that particular mission. Finaly at the bottom of the window there are links to external references. In some cases, these references are available throught scientific websites or journals for free. In other cases however, the information was published on journals only accesible throught direct suscription or using the access provided by Universities or research centers.

Launch base	Date	Flight Duration	Experiment	Payload landing place or cause of the failure
McMurdo	1/8	24 d	HIREGS III (HIgh REsolution Gamma-ray and hard x-ray Spectrometer)	400 km southeast of launch site
Thule	1/14	1,77 d	POVORBEX (POlar VORrtex Balloon Experiment)	--- No Data ---
Thule	1/20	0,54 d	POVORBEX (POlar VORrtex Balloon Experiment)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	1/21	---	OPTICAL PARTICLE COUNTER	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	1/23	3 h 42 m	ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	1/27	4 h 34 m	ASTRID (Air Sampling of TRacers for Identification of Dynamics)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	1/28	4 h 32 m	RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) + BALLAD (BALloon Limb Aerosol Detection) + BOCCAD (Balloon OCCultation Aerosol Detection) + OPC	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	1/30	1 h 42 m	PAYLOAD UNKNOWN	--- No Data ---
Andoya	1/30	---	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	2/3	2 h 55 m	TRIPLE (BONBON + Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer)	between Oulu and Helsinki in Finland.
ESRANGE	2/3	---	OPTICAL PARTICLE COUNTER + CAO	--- No Data ---
Laramie (WY)	2/9	---	AEROSOL COUNTER	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	2/10	4 h 3 m	AMON (Absorption de Minoritaires, Ozone et NOx)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	2/11	2 h 54 m	OZONOXY	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	2/11	6 h 28 m	MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)	--- No Data ---
Thule	2/11	1,23 d	POVORBEX (POlar VORrtex Balloon Experiment)	--- No Data ---
Andoya	2/11	---	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	2/13	5 h	ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique)	--- No Data ---
Thule	2/13	5,90 d	POVORBEX (POlar VORrtex Balloon Experiment)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	2/14	31 m	LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/2	4 h 21 m	RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) + BALLAD (BALloon Limb Aerosol Detection) + BOCCAD (Balloon OCCultation Aerosol Detection) + OPC	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/3	2 h 14 m	LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/6	2 h 46 m	CLO-BRO MEASUREMENTS	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/6	2 h 15 m	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/7	3 h 56 m	CRYOGENIC SAMPLER (MPAE)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/8	2 h 57 m	ASTRID (Air Sampling of TRacers for Identification of Dynamics)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/20	3 h 57 m	ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/20	4 h 56 m	BAMAS (Ballongetragenes Massenspektrometer)	--- No Data ---
TIFR Hyderabad	3/21	---	XMPC (Xenon filled Multi-anode Proportional Counter telescope)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/21	2 h 20 m	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/21	7 h 8 m	MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/22	3 h 2 m	LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + CAESR (Cryogenic Atmospheric Emission Spectre-Radiometer)	--- No Data ---
Andoya	3/22	---	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
Cachoeira Paulista (SP)	3/23	---	DOUBLE PROBE ELECTRIC FIELD DETECTOR	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	3/24	1 h 26 m	CRANE LAUNCH SYSTEM TEST FLIGHT	--- No Data ---
Laramie (WY)	3/30	---	AEROSOL COUNTER	--- No Data ---
Fort Sumner (NM)	4/1	---	LONG DURATION BALLOON	22 miles SE of Corona, New Mexico, US
Aire Sur L'Adour	4/13	3 h 37 m	BALLON BUS 95	In Pau, 80 kms from the launch site.
TIFR Hyderabad	4/19	---	LASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	5/12	2 h 55 m	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	5/14	2 h 19 m	HUYGENS SM2	--- No Data ---
ESRANGE	5/22	3 h 41 m	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
Sanriku	5/27	---	HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON TEST	--- No Data ---
Palestine (TX)	5/29	---	MSAM-1 (Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement)	Aborted flight
Sanriku	5/30	16 h	PERFORMANCE TEST OF NEW COMMAND RECEIVER	--- No Data ---
Trapani	6/??	---	PAYLOAD UNKNOWN	Balloon failure
Palestine (TX)	6/1	F 9 h 44 m	MSAM-1 (Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement)	20 miles NW of Junction, Texas, US
Palestine (TX)	6/1	F 21 h 37 m	PORTIA (Piggyback Room Temperature Instrument for Astronomy)	7 miles NE of Sterling City, Texas, US
Sanriku	6/8	9 h 20 m	CRYOGENIC SAMPLER	In the Pacific Ocean 20 km SE of Ofunato Port, Iwate Prefecture
Palestine (TX)	6/13	F 7 h 42 m	TRIP (Telescope Raffreddato Infrarosso Pallone)	12 miles SW of Brady, Texas, US
Gap-Tallard	6/20	7 h 29 m	RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon)	--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard	6/22	10 h 28 m	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard	6/26	5 h 50 m	PREDYN	--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard	6/27	6 h 39 m	Technological flight of a 402z balloon instrumented	--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard	6/30	1 h 51 m	PREDYN	--- No Data ---
Gap-Tallard	7/1	7 h 3 m	SOPRANO 2	--- No Data ---
Palestine (TX)	7/8	F 4 h	BAM (Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement)	17 miles SSW of Monohans, Texas, US
Kamchatka	7/15	130 h	RUNJOB I (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program)	In Markushiuno, Tyumen Oblast, Russia
Kamchatka	7/19	167 h	RUNJOB II (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program)	In Inza, Uliánovsk Oblast, Russia
Lynn Lake (MB)	7/26	12 h	BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer)	65 miles NNW of Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada
Trapani	7/29	26 h 7 m	HEAT (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 CALIBRATION	Balloon failure. Impact 12 miles W of Palestine, Texas, US
Trapani	8/10	21 h 7 m	CRASH (Cosmic Rays And Strange Hadronic matter)	In Munera, Albacete, Spain
Trapani	8/20	---	ARD (Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator)	On the Jonic Sea between the citys of Catania and Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
Wallops (VA)	8/23	---	THUNDERSTORMS STUDIES	22 miles NE of Williamsburg, Virgina, US
Lynn Lake (MB)	8/23	F 32 h	HEAT (High-Energy Antimatter Telescope)	3 miles N of Tadoule Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Wallops (VA)	8/23	---	THUNDERSTORMS STUDIES	10 miles SW of Wallops, Virgina, US
Lynn Lake (MB)	8/26	~ 4 h	COSMIC RAY EXPERIMENT	8 miles NE of Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada
Sanriku	8/30	4 h	WATERPROOF GONDOLA TEST	--- No Data ---
Palestine (TX)	8/31	F 4 h	SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION	12 miles S of Carbon, Texas, US
Sanriku	9/2	2 h	ATMOSPHERIC OZONE OBSERVATON	--- No Data ---
Palestine (TX)	9/3	F 6 h 46 m	MAXIMA (Millimeter anisotropy experiment imaging array)	--- No Data ---
Sanriku	9/5	2 h	FLIGHT PERFORMANCE TEST OF BALLOON	--- No Data ---
Sanriku	9/8	2 h 30 m	HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON TEST	--- No Data ---
Sanriku	9/13	~ 14 h	BETS (Balloon-borne Electron Telescope with Scintillating fibers)	--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour	9/18	3 h 5 m	OPENING FLIGHT	--- No Data ---
Laramie (WY)	9/26	---	AEROSOL COUNTER	--- No Data ---
Alice Springs	9/26	24 h	AXEL (Astrophysical X-Ray Experimental Laboratory)	47 km NE of Giles Weather Station, Western Australia
Fort Sumner (NM)	9/27	20 h	SUPER-JACEE (Japanese-American Collaborative Emulsion Experiment)	8 miles S of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, US
Fort Sumner (NM)	9/28	11 h	SOFCAL (Scintillating Optical Fiber Calorimeter)	33miles SW of Guymon, Oklahoma, US
Fort Sumner (NM)	10/1	10 h	SDS (Solar Disk Sextant)	5 miles NNW of San Jon, Nuevo Mexico, US
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/2	2 h	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
Alice Springs	10/4	24 h	GRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)	13.5 miles N of Alice Springs, Australia
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/5	3 h 19 m	RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) + BALLAD (BALloon Limb Aerosol Detection) + BOCCAD (Balloon OCCultation Aerosol Detection)	--- No Data ---
Alice Springs	10/6	34 h	GRIP-2 (Gamma-Ray Imaging Payload)	140 miles NW of Boulia, Queensland, Australia
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/6	4 h 30 m	LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)	--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/6	2 h 35 m	PREDYN	--- No Data ---
Fort Sumner (NM)	10/6	14 h 30 m	LAPEX (Large-Area Phoswich balloon Experiment for hard-X-ray astronomy)	22 miles ESE of Roswell, Nuevo Mexico, US
Fort Sumner (NM)	10/10	9 h 30 m	UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH	5 miles W of Haskell, Texas, US
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/12	2 h 15 m	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/12	3 h 2 m	BALLAD (BALloon Limb Aerosol Detection) + BOCCAD (Balloon OCCultation Aerosol Detection)	--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/12	3 h 19 m	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
Fort Sumner (NM)	10/14	8 h	HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS	17 miles NW of Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Alice Springs	10/17	32 h	GRATIS (Gamma Ray Arcminute Telescope Imaging System)	30 miles W of Ti Tree, Northern Territory, Australia
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/18	1 h 27 m	PREDYN	--- No Data ---
Aire Sur L'Adour	10/23	5 h 11 m	BAMAS (Ballongetragenes Massenspektrometer)	--- No Data ---
Alice Springs	10/25	35 h	GRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer) + PORTIA	30 miles E of Alice Springs, Australia
Lauder	11/7	---	AEROSOL COUNTER	--- No Data ---
TIFR Hyderabad	11/12	---	INFRARED ASTRONOMY	--- No Data ---
León	11/13	4 h 23 m	OPENING FLIGHT	--- No Data ---
Alice Springs	11/14	9 h 30 m	GRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer) + PORTIA	10 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 ---
León	11/23	5 h 32 m	MACSIMS (Measurement of Atmospheric Constituents by Selective Ion Mass Spectrometry)	--- No Data ---
León	11/23	3 h 27 m	LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)	--- No Data ---
Baurú GLB (SP)	11/23	---	SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)	--- No Data ---
León	12/1	2 h 26 m	INTERBOA TEST FLIGHT	--- No Data ---
León	12/1	2 h 50 m	HASI (Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument) - COMAS SOLA	In Navarra (Spain) at coordinates 42º27'11"N, 1º28'47"W
León	12/2	2 h 10 m	CRANE LAUNCH TEST FLIGHT	--- No Data ---
León	12/2	3 h 27 m	CEI	--- No Data ---
TIFR Hyderabad	12/8	F 6 h 30 m	LASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment)	--- No Data ---
Fort Sumner (NM)	12/9	8 h	XPER (X band Experiment)	20 miles SSO of Lawton, Oklahoma, US
McMurdo	12/19	14 d 5 h	JACEE 14 (Japanese-American Collaborative Emulsion Experiment)	93 miles S of McMurdo, Antarctica

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