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Stratospheric balloons launched on 1997

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Launch siteDateScientific ExperimentPayload landing site
Andoya (NO)1/14LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter)--- No data ---   
Syowa (AQ)1/19GRAB SAMPLING SYSTEM--- No data ---   
Andoya (NO)1/19LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter)--- No data ---   
Syowa (AQ)1/22GRAB SAMPLING SYSTEM--- No data ---   
Andoya (NO)1/29SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)2/2Technological opening flight--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/9RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/10CRYOGENIC AIR SAMPLER--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/10WATER VAPOUR MEASUREMENTS--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/10MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)2/11TRIPLE--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/14ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/14LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS--- No data ---  
Juazeiro do Norte (CE)2/14Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer + ALIAS II180 kms West of launch site (estimated)   
ESRANGE (SE)2/22SAKURA (Cryogenic sampler)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/23Optical Particle Counter--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/24SAOZ-BrO Instrument--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/24SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)In Greenland. 
ESRANGE (SE)2/25CRYOGENIC AIR SAMPLER--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/25WATER VAPOUR MEASUREMENTS--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/26AMON (Absorption de Minoritaires, Ozone et NO).--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/26LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + CAESR--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)2/28SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No data ---  
Andoya (NO)3/16SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)3/17SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)Near Trondheim, Norway 
ESRANGE (SE)3/18SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)3/18SAKURA (Cryogenic sampler) / DESCARTES--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/20SAOZ / BRO 2--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/21LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + CAESR--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)3/24MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)--- No data ---  
Ft. Sumner (NM)3/30TEST FLIGHT--- No data ---   
Hyderabad (IN)3/30LASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)4/28TEST FLIGHT--- No data ---   
Fort Wainwright (AK)4/30FIRS-2 (far infrared Fourier transform spectrometer) + in situ O3 PhotometerNear the town of Bettles, Alaska   
ESRANGE (SE)5/1OZONE SAMPLER--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)5/7EXITE2 (Energetic X-Ray Imaging Telescope Experiment) + MIXE2 (Marshall Imaging X-ray Experiment)West of Oklahoma City   
Fort Wainwright (AK)5/8MKIV--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)5/12MEFISTO--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)5/20SOFCAL (Scintillating Optical Fiber Calorimeter)60 miles south of Prescott, Arizona   
Ft. Sumner (NM)5/24COSMIC AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS--- No data ---   
Sanriku (JP)5/30SAKURA (Cryogenic sampler)--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)6/2INFRARED ASTRONOMY--- No data ---   
Sanriku (JP)6/2ELECTRONS DETECTOR--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)6/11SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION--- No data ---   
Gap (FR)6/19LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS--- No data ---  
Fort Wainwright (AK)6/23Technological flight + Cosmic ray experiment300 miles east of Inuvik, in northern Canada.   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)6/23TRIPLE (BONBON)--- No data ---   
Gap (FR)6/24SAOZ Bro instrument--- No data ---   
Gap (FR)6/25SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES--- No data ---  
Gap (FR)6/27UWOP / LABS--- No data ---   
Fort Wainwright (AK)6/30OMS Gondola - ALIAS II + Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer--- No data ---   
Gap (FR)7/1MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)--- No data ---  
Gap (FR)7/1DATA TRANSMITION SYSTEM TEST--- No data ---   
Fort Wainwright (AK)7/8Mk IV + in situ O3 Photometer--- No data ---   
Kamchatka (RU)7/9RUNJOB V (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program)No Data   
Kamchatka (RU)7/11RUNJOB VI (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program)No Data   
Kamchatka (RU)7/16RUNJOB VII (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program)No Data   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)7/25LXeGRIT (Liquid Xenon Gama-Ray Imaging Telescope)--- No data ---   
Lynn Lake (MB)7/28BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer)--- No data ---  
NSBF, Palestine (TX)8/2SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION--- No data ---   
Trapani (IT)8/6HASI - PWAOn the Mediterranean Sea   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)8/12BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics)In a pond about 70 miles west of Palestine, Texas, USA  
NSBF, Palestine (TX)8/14SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)8/16OZONE SAMPLER--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)8/24SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)8/25HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)8/29BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics)Near Fort Stockton, Texas, USA.  
Lynn Lake (MB)9/2AESOP (Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload) + LEE (Low Energy Electrons)--- No data ---  
Sanriku (JP)9/9A balloon-borne resonance fluorescence instrument for in-situ measurement of Ozone.--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/11Aire Sur L'Adour autumn campaign opening flight--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/20COSMIC AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/24TIGER (Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder)In the SW of Kansas, USA 
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/24New MIR balloon flight test--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/25PIROG (Pointing InfraRed Observing Gondola)--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/27FIT--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/30AEROSOL ANALISIS--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)10/4COSMIC AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/7MEFISTO--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/8SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTESIn Tarn-et-Garonne  
Ft. Sumner (NM)10/15HEXIS (High Energy X-ray Imaging Spectrometer)West of Wichita Falls, Texas 
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/28ETNA (Equipement de Télécommunication Numérique pour Aérostat)--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/31Technological flight 10 meters diameter super pressure balloon--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)11/7INMARSAT system test flight--- No data ---   
Juazeiro do Norte (CE)11/11Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer--- No data ---   
Juazeiro do Norte (CE)11/20Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer + ALIAS II--- No data ---   
IPMET, Baurú (SP)11/23LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter).--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)11/26Technological flight 10 meters diameter super pressure balloonIn Viella, Gers, France  
IPMET, Baurú (SP)11/26LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter).--- No data ---   
IPMET, Baurú (SP)11/29SAOZ and BrO instruments--- No data ---   
  1996 1998

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