| Launch site | Date | Scientific Experiment | Payload landing site |
 | Andoya (NO) | 1/14 | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter) | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Syowa (AQ) | 1/19 | GRAB SAMPLING SYSTEM | --- No data --- | | | |
| Andoya (NO) | 1/19 | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Syowa (AQ) | 1/22 | GRAB SAMPLING SYSTEM | --- No data --- | | | |
| Andoya (NO) | 1/29 | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES | --- No data --- | | |  |
 | ESRANGE (SE) | 2/2 | Technological opening flight | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/9 | RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/10 | CRYOGENIC AIR SAMPLER | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/10 | WATER VAPOUR MEASUREMENTS | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/10 | MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/11 | TRIPLE | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/14 | ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique) | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/14 | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Juazeiro do Norte (CE) | 2/14 | Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer + ALIAS II | 180 kms West of launch site (estimated) | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/22 | SAKURA (Cryogenic sampler) | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/23 | Optical Particle Counter | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/24 | SAOZ-BrO Instrument | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/24 | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) | In Greenland. |  | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/25 | CRYOGENIC AIR SAMPLER | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/25 | WATER VAPOUR MEASUREMENTS | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/26 | AMON (Absorption de Minoritaires, Ozone et NO). | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/26 | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + CAESR | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 2/28 | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Andoya (NO) | 3/16 | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/17 | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) | Near Trondheim, Norway | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/18 | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/18 | SAKURA (Cryogenic sampler) / DESCARTES | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/20 | SAOZ / BRO 2 | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/21 | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + CAESR | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/24 | MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Ft. Sumner (NM) | 3/30 | TEST FLIGHT | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Hyderabad (IN) | 3/30 | LASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment) | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 4/28 | TEST FLIGHT | --- No data --- | | | |
| Fort Wainwright (AK) | 4/30 | FIRS-2 (far infrared Fourier transform spectrometer) + in situ O3 Photometer | Near the town of Bettles, Alaska | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 5/1 | OZONE SAMPLER | --- No data --- | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 5/7 | EXITE2 (Energetic X-Ray Imaging Telescope Experiment) + MIXE2 (Marshall Imaging X-ray Experiment) | West of Oklahoma City | | | |
| Fort Wainwright (AK) | 5/8 | MKIV | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 5/12 | MEFISTO | --- No data --- | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 5/20 | SOFCAL (Scintillating Optical Fiber Calorimeter) | 60 miles south of Prescott, Arizona | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 5/24 | COSMIC AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Sanriku (JP) | 5/30 | SAKURA (Cryogenic sampler) | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 6/2 | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | --- No data --- | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 6/2 | ELECTRONS DETECTOR | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 6/11 | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | --- No data --- | | | |
| Gap (FR) | 6/19 | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS | --- No data --- | | | |
| Fort Wainwright (AK) | 6/23 | Technological flight + Cosmic ray experiment | 300 miles east of Inuvik, in northern Canada. | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 6/23 | TRIPLE (BONBON) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Gap (FR) | 6/24 | SAOZ Bro instrument | --- No data --- | | | |
| Gap (FR) | 6/25 | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES | --- No data --- | | | |
| Gap (FR) | 6/27 | UWOP / LABS | --- No data --- | | | |
| Fort Wainwright (AK) | 6/30 | OMS Gondola - ALIAS II + Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer | --- No data --- | | | |
| Gap (FR) | 7/1 | MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Gap (FR) | 7/1 | DATA TRANSMITION SYSTEM TEST | --- No data --- | | | |
| Fort Wainwright (AK) | 7/8 | Mk IV + in situ O3 Photometer | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Kamchatka (RU) | 7/9 | RUNJOB V (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program) | No Data | | | |
| Kamchatka (RU) | 7/11 | RUNJOB VI (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program) | No Data | | | |
| Kamchatka (RU) | 7/16 | RUNJOB VII (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program) | No Data | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 7/25 | LXeGRIT (Liquid Xenon Gama-Ray Imaging Telescope) | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Lynn Lake (MB) | 7/28 | BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer) | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/2 | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Trapani (IT) | 8/6 | HASI - PWA | On the Mediterranean Sea | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/12 | BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics) | In a pond about 70 miles west of Palestine, Texas, USA | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/14 | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 8/16 | OZONE SAMPLER | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/24 | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/25 | HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/29 | BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics) | Near Fort Stockton, Texas, USA. | | | |
| Lynn Lake (MB) | 9/2 | AESOP (Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload) + LEE (Low Energy Electrons) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 9/9 | A balloon-borne resonance fluorescence instrument for in-situ measurement of Ozone. | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 9/11 | Aire Sur L'Adour autumn campaign opening flight | --- No data --- | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 9/20 | COSMIC AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS | --- No data --- | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 9/24 | TIGER (Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder) | In the SW of Kansas, USA | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 9/24 | New MIR balloon flight test | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 9/25 | PIROG (Pointing InfraRed Observing Gondola) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 9/27 | FIT | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 9/30 | AEROSOL ANALISIS | --- No data --- | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 10/4 | COSMIC AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 10/7 | MEFISTO | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 10/8 | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES | In Tarn-et-Garonne | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 10/15 | HEXIS (High Energy X-ray Imaging Spectrometer) | West of Wichita Falls, Texas | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 10/28 | ETNA (Equipement de Télécommunication Numérique pour Aérostat) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 10/31 | Technological flight 10 meters diameter super pressure balloon | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 11/7 | INMARSAT system test flight | --- No data --- | | | |
| Juazeiro do Norte (CE) | 11/11 | Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer | --- No data --- | | | |
| Juazeiro do Norte (CE) | 11/20 | Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer + ALIAS II | --- No data --- | | | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 11/23 | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter). | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 11/26 | Technological flight 10 meters diameter super pressure balloon | In Viella, Gers, France | | | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 11/26 | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter). | --- No data --- | | | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 11/29 | SAOZ and BrO instruments | --- No data --- | | | |
See launches from 1996
