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Stratospheric balloons launched on 2000

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Launch siteDateScientific ExperimentPayload landing site
ESRANGE (SE)1/107ENG balloon technological flight--- No data ---   
McMurdo (AQ)1/10FGE (Flare Genesis Experiment)In good shape near McMurdo base.  
ESRANGE (SE)1/127ENG balloon technological flight--- No data ---   
McMurdo (AQ)1/12MAXIS (MeV Auroral X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy)On Victoria Land, approximately 390 nautical miles from McMurdo Station.  
ESRANGE (SE)1/14micro-RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/19ANALYSIS OF POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/19HALOZ--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/23SALOMON (Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et Nox)--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)1/25BACKSCATTER SOND--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/25ACMS (Aerosol Composition Mass Spectrometer) + Several other instruments--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/25micro-RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/27TRIPLE--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/27HALOZ--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/28OZONE LOSS--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/9SAOZ and other 5 instruments to measure ozone loss--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/13OZONE LOSS--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/16Parachute system test--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/18LABS / O3Payload retrieved from Hudson Bay, Canadá.  
ESRANGE (SE)2/18LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOASIn Finland 
ESRANGE (SE)2/18LAGRANGIAN EXPERIMENTnear Minsk, Russian Federation.  
ESRANGE (SE)2/22SALOMON (Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et Nox)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/23ORION--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/27Support flight MIR--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/29TECHNOLOGICAL FLIGHTIn Siberia.  
ESRANGE (SE)3/1HALOZ--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/1TRIPLE--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/3INMARSAT TEST--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/5OMS Gondola - ALIAS II + Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)3/610 ZUL new type balloon test flight--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/710 ZUL new type balloon test flight--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/8HALOZ--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/15MKIV / SLS Microwave--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)3/25OZONE LOSS--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/257ENG test flight--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/27SAPIN--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/28SUPERPRESSURE BALLOON--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/29TEST NSO.S--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)4/1micro-RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)4/1SUPERPRESSURE BALLOON--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)4/3SUPERPRESSURE BALLOON--- No data ---   
Andoya (NO)4/3SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTESAt coordinates 69º 15' North, 21º 27' East.  
ESRANGE (SE)4/4TECHNOLOGICAL FLIGHT--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)4/4HALOZ--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)4/7SUPERPRESSURE BALLOON--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)4/730SFR Techno flight--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)5/3TEST FLIGHT--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)5/6BD 2--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)5/8OZONE SAMPLER--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)5/10INMARSAT TEST--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)5/15SAMMOA--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)5/20INFRARED ASTRONOMY--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)5/21HEAT pbar (High-Energy Antimatter Telescope)30 kms west of Clovis, New Mexico   
Sanriku (JP)5/31OBSERVATION OF HIGH ENERGY PRIMARY ELECTRON--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)6/3HEAT pbar (High-Energy Antimatter Telescope)20 kms east of the Gran Canyon in Arizona  
Sanriku (JP)6/3Loading equipment test--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)6/4ULDB (Ultra Long Duration Balloon)--- No data ---  
Sanriku (JP)6/5BETS (Balloon-borne Electron Telescope with Scintillating fibers)Payload retrieved from Pacific Ocean near the launch site   
Sanriku (JP)6/7TEST FLIGHT--- No data ---   
Gap (FR)6/14Ouverture technollogical flight--- No data ---   
Gap (FR)6/15CLAIRE (Gamma-Ray Lens Telescope)In a corn field in Castel-Jaloux (Landes), France. 
ESRANGE (SE)6/16SAMMOA--- No data ---   
Trapani (IT)6/19-- No Data --On the Mediterranean sea.  
Gap (FR)6/20SDLA-LAMA (Spectromètre à Diode Laser Accordable - Laser pour l'Analyse du Méthane Atmosphérique)Near the town of Entraigues-sur-Volane, Ardèche, France.   
Gap (FR)6/22INMARSAT and TM allegee systems technological flight--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)6/27Special project--- No data ---   
Gap (FR)6/28SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale)--- No data ---  
Gap (FR)6/30SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + NILU-CUBE--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)7/5Special project--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)7/6NIGHTGLOWNear the small town of Stiles, Texas, USA. 
NSBF, Palestine (TX)7/7UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH--- No data ---   
Trapani (IT)7/10BIRBA (Biological Radiation on Balloon)In Spain  
Lynn Lake (MB)8/10BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer)--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)8/14SAMMOA--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)8/19INFOCUS (International Focusing Optics Collaboration for uCrab Sensitivity)--- No data ---   
Lynn Lake (MB)8/25AESOP (Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload) + LEE (Low Energy Electrons)--- No data ---  
Sanriku (JP)8/28LIQUID-HELIUM CRYOGENIC SAMPLER--- No data ---   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)8/29INFOCUS (International Focusing Optics Collaboration for uCrab Sensitivity)--- No data ---   
SIL, Vanscoy (CA)8/29MANTRA (Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assesment)East of Nipawin provincial Park, about 280 km northeast of the launch base.  
Sanriku (JP)8/30STRATOSPHERIC OZONE--- No data ---   
Lynn Lake (MB)9/1ISOMAX (Isotope Magnet Experiment).Payload crashed near South Indian Lake.   
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/19HERO (High Energy Replicated Optics)--- No data ---  
ESRANGE (SE)9/22SKERRIES--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/25COSMIC AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/25TECHNO1 (ASPI) technological flight--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/27TECHNO2 technological flight--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)10/4LXeGRIT (Liquid Xenon Gama-Ray Imaging Telescope)Payload rescued near the little town of Buckeye.  
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/4Ozone sampling instrument--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/9micro-RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon)--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)10/16INFRARED / SUBMILIMETRIC ASTRONOMY--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)11/17SKERRIES--- No data ---   
IPMET, Baurú (SP)11/17SAMBA gondolaPayload lost.  
IPMET, Baurú (SP)11/19SAMBA + INMARSATPayload lost. 
ESRANGE (SE)11/24OZONE SAMPLER--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)11/24TANGO MAP 11North of the town of Pello, Finland   
ESRANGE (SE)11/29TANGO MAP 12South of the town of Pello, Finland   
ESRANGE (SE)12/2Vuelo apertura campaña ARCHEOPS--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)12/4TANGO MAP 13North of the town of Rovaniemi, Finland   
ESRANGE (SE)12/4SALOMON (Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et Nox)--- No data ---   
Hyderabad (IN)12/11CRYOSAMPLER (Criogenic atmpospheric sampler)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)12/11SKERRIES--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)12/12TANGO MAP 14North of the town of Kemijärvi, Finland   
ESRANGE (SE)12/12NTA Test flight + HYGROMETER--- No data ---   
Trapani (IT)12/14SINTESYS--- No data ---   
Hyderabad (IN)12/16FIRBE (Far InfraRed Balloon-borne Experiment)300 kms fron the launch site. 
ESRANGE (SE)12/18TANGO MAP 15--- No data ---   
McMurdo (AQ)12/28ATIC (Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter)At latitude 75 degrees 30.13 minutes South, longitude 154 degrees 5.23 minutes East. A Twin Otter airplane was used on January 22 for the recovery of the ATIC experiment. 
  1999 2001

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