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Stratospheric balloons launched on 2002

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Launch siteDateScientific ExperimentPayload landing site
ESRANGE (SE)1/9Vorcore - Long Duration--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/15Campaign opening flight--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/17ARCHEOPS 2 + PSCIn Finland   
ESRANGE (SE)1/19Vorcore - Long Duration--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/21SALOMON (Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et Nox)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/22VLD--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/22VLD--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/24VLD--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)1/26VLD--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/1VLD--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/4VLD--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/5VLD--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)2/7ARCHEOPSNear Norilsk, Russian Federation   
ESRANGE (SE)2/12MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)In the Russian Federation  
ESRANGE (SE)3/2HALOZ 2-1--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/13MIR ALLEGEE--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/14MIR VLD-1 / INMARSAT--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)3/17Test FlightOver Canada 45ºN - 124ºW  
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)4/15Aire Sur L'Adour spring campaign opening flight--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)4/22ORIENTABLE GONDOLANear the town of Foix
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)4/25Ozone sampling instrument--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)5/14SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + SAOZ H2O + DIRAC + MICROLIDAR--- No data ---   
Tillamook NAS (OR)5/15A payload containing Low and High voltage electric field probes, magnetic search coils for a vector B-field measurement, x-ray detectors, one pointing up and one pointing down and two optical lightning detectors, one pointing up and one pointing down.--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)5/15micro-SDLA--- No data ---   
Sanriku (JP)5/23Test flight of a new balloon made of a new ultra thin material (3.4 microns).--- No data ---  
Sanriku (JP)5/24Hard X-ray Spectrometer for Flare ObservationsA parachute failure caused the instrument to land harder than intended and as a result of the impact resulted partially destroyed.   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)5/24micro-SDLA--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)5/25-- No Data --No Data   
Sanriku (JP)5/30POLAR BESS - Solar Array TestNo Data  
Trapani (IT)5/30HASI (Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument)En Sicilia, Italia  
Trapani (IT)6/23BIRBA (Biological Radiation on Balloon)In Spain   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)7/6-- No Data --No Data   
NSBF, Palestine (TX)7/9SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION--- No data ---   
Trapani (IT)7/10BABY (BAckground BYpass)In Spain  
NSBF, Palestine (TX)7/25SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION--- No data ---   
Trapani (IT)7/29IBEX (Infrared Balloon-borne EXperiment)In Sierra Nevada, Spain   
ESRANGE (SE)8/3Opening Flight--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)8/5LPMA-IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer)200 kms southwest from Kiruna, Sweden 
Lynn Lake (MB)8/7BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer)Near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada  
ESRANGE (SE)8/8SDLA-LAMA (Spectromètre à Diode Laser Accordable - Laser pour l'Analyse du Méthane Atmosphérique)--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)8/12SAOZ--- No data ---   
Lynn Lake (MB)8/13AESOP (Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload) + LEE (Low Energy Electrons)--- No data --- 
ESRANGE (SE)8/18LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere)40 km west of Jokkmokk, Sweden 
Lynn Lake (MB)8/25LEE (Low Energy Electrons) + UHAB (Ultra High Altitude Balloon) testNear Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada 
SIL, Vanscoy (CA)9/3MANTRA (Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assesment)At 52.276°N latitude, 100.208°W longitude, near Duck Bay in Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba province. 
Sanriku (JP)9/4CRIOGENIC SAMPLERNo Data  
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/7SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION--- No data ---   
Sanriku (JP)9/7-- No Data --No Data   
Sanriku (JP)9/11-- No Data --No Data   
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/16COSMIC RAY ASTROPHYSICS--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/19SALOMON (Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et Nox)--- No data ---  
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/20MAXIPOL--- No data ---  
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/24TRIPLE--- No data ---  
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)9/24MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)--- No data ---  
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/1SAOZ BrO + MICRO LIDAR + NILU CUBE--- No data ---   
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/2SPIRALE (Spectroscopie Infra-Rouge par Absorption de Laser Embarqué)--- No data ---  
Aire Sur L'Adour (FR)10/4SAOZ + SAOZ H2O + DIRAC--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)10/9NEUTRONS SPECTROMETERPayload retrieved south of Santa Rosa.  
Ft. Sumner (NM)10/13Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer + ALIAS II--- No data ---   
Ft. Sumner (NM)10/20ALIAS IIPayload retrieved north of the town of Snyder, Texas.  
ESRANGE (SE)11/25BEXUS I (Balloon Experiment for University Students) + EBASSWest of the town of Kuosku, Finland, at coordinates 67° 22,417' N - 28° 29,477' E  
ESRANGE (SE)11/28OZONE SAMPLER--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)12/3AEROSOL STUDIES--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)12/4PSC2--- No data ---   
ESRANGE (SE)12/6PSC1--- No data ---   
SLB, Cachoeira Paulista (SP)12/6SPRITES DETECTION--- No data --- 
ESRANGE (SE)12/7MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne)Near the russian city of Murmansk  
ESRANGE (SE)12/16Mk IV + in situ O3 PhotometerNear Murmansk, Russian Federation.  
McMurdo (AQ)12/29ATIC (Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter)The gondola landed at 74º 40' South latitude and 160º 19' East longitude near the Italian Terra Nova Bay base. 
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