| Launch site | Date | Scientific Experiment | Payload landing site |
 | McMurdo (AQ) | 1/6 | BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics) | In a place called Dome Fuji near a japanese antartic base. |  | |  |
| Syowa (AQ) | 1/6 | An ULF~LF wave receiver, aurora X-ray imager, DC electric field instrument, 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer, and the ionospheric total electron content measurement using GPS. | --- No data --- | | | |
 | ESRANGE (SE) | 1/10 | Opening Flight | No Data | | | |
| Syowa (AQ) | 1/13 | An ULF~LF wave receiver, aurora X-ray imager, DC electric field instrument, 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer, and the ionospheric total electron content measurement using GPS. | Probably the payload crashed in the sea 300 km off the chilean coast. | | | |
| Syowa (AQ) | 1/13 | An ULF~LF wave receiver, aurora X-ray imager, DC electric field instrument, 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer, and the ionospheric total electron content measurement using GPS. | Probably the payload crashed in the sea 500 km off the chilean coast. | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 1/16 | ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique) | No Data | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 1/21 | SPIRALE (Spectroscopie Infra-Rouge par Absorption de Laser Embarqué) | | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 1/22 | AEROSOL STUDIES | No Data | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 1/22 | AEROSOL STUDIES | No Data | | | |
 | IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 2/18 | SAOZ + SAOZ-H2O + DIRAC + H2O/O3/Ucam experiences | Payload retrieved in perfect condition. | | | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 2/18 | Narcisse gondola (Inmarsat C) with radiometer + SAOZ (1.5 to 2 months autonomy) | About 15 km North-East from Bauru where a team was sent for recovery and investigations. SAOZ payload seems to be only slightly damaged. | | | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 2/19 | DIRAC CFCs/SLS + Microlidar + Descartes CFCs/SLS + O3 SSS/H2O SAW Experiences | 30 kms E of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil | | | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 2/20 | Narcisse gondola (Inmarsat C) with radiometer + SAOZ/H2O and lightning/blue jet detector (1.5 to 2 months autonomy) | The payloads landed a little inland in a small mountains area south of the city of Townsville. | |  | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 2/22 | Inmarsat eC-track + RUMBA-H2O/O3 + RUMBA Vorcore-turbulence | Payloads and balloon were recovered today at about 10 km from Bauru for investigations. | | | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 2/23 | SAOZ + SAOZ/BrO + DIRAC N2O + MICRO-LIDAR + O3 SSS/H2O SAW experiences | Payload retrieved in perfect condition. | | | |
| IPMET, Baurú (SP) | 2/23 | Techno flight new lightened MIR carrying the SAOZ gondola recovered after failure of the first MIR ENVISAT (launched febraury 19) + Inmarsat eC-track | Payload lost in the ocean. | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/1 | AMON | No Data | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/4 | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS + micro DOAS + CAESR | 40 km northwest of Raiskio, Finland | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/6 | TRIPLE | No Data | | | |
| SLB, Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 3/6 | SPRITES DETECTION | The balloon traveled with a higher velocity than predicted, and thus went out of telemetry range quickly. The last GPS coordinates were 22.44º S, 312.40º W. | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/16 | SAOZ + SAOZ-BrO | No Data | | | |
 | ABLS, Alice Spring (AU) | 3/17 | NIGHTGLOW + ULDB (Ultra Long Duration Balloon) | 241 kilometers west-southwest of Ayers Rock near the town of Uluru. | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/20 | MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | 50 kms from the launch site. | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/23 | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS + micro DOAS + CAESR | 60 km east of Rovaniemi, Finland | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/25 | ELITE | No Data | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/30 | SAOZ + SAOZ-BrO | No Data | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/31 | Mk IV + in situ O3 Photometer | Payload was recovered near the village of Somma in NE Finland | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 3/31 | Mk IV + in situ O3 Photometer | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Ft. Sumner (NM) | 5/24 | MAXIPOL | --- No data --- | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 6/5 | HSFD (High Speed Flight Demonstrator) | No Data | | | |
 | Trapani (IT) | 6/7 | HASI (Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument) | In Sicily | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 6/9 | TRIPLE | No Data | | | |
 | Svalbard (NO) | 6/15 | PATHFINDER - 1 | In the Greenland Sea. | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 6/15 | ARCADE (Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission) | NE of Snyder, Texas, USA | | | |
| Svalbard (NO) | 6/16 | PATHFINDER - 2 | In the Greenland Sea. | | | |
| Svalbard (NO) | 6/19 | PATHFINDER - 3 | 60 kms away from launch site | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 7/1 | HSFD (High Speed Flight Demonstrator) | In the so called "Zone B" devoted to the landing of the nosecones of the rockets launched from ESRANGE | | | |
| ESRANGE (SE) | 7/3 | MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | In a birch grove in the Scandinavian mountains. | | | |
| Svalbard (NO) | 7/9 | PATHFINDER - 4 | 15 kms away from launch site | | | |
| Svalbard (NO) | 7/12 | PATHFINDER - 6 | No data | | | |
| Svalbard (NO) | 7/12 | PATHFINDER - 5 | In the sea near launch site | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 7/13 | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/7 | A test flight in support of the Phase B Semi-Automatic Parachute Release system qualification. | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/11 | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/15 | A test flight in support of the Phase B Semi-Automatic Parachute Release system qualification. | --- No data --- | | | |
| NSBF, Palestine (TX) | 8/16 | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Sanriku (JP) | 8/23 | SOLAR SAIL | Payload rescued from the sea 20 km east of Touni Bay (Long.: 142° 10' E, Lat.: 39° 14' N) | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 8/30 | BSMILES (Balloon-borne Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder) | Payload rescued from the sea 40 km off the east coast of Miyako. | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 9/1 | SBI (Solar Bolometric Imager) | In a field just south of Farmington NM, about 250 mi NW of launch site | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 9/1 | MACFT (Membrane Aeroshell Capsule Flight Test) | On the Pacific Ocean (see map) | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 9/3 | Si/CdTe semiconductor Compton telescope (Prototype) | No Data | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 9/12 | Flight performance test (break down test) | No Data | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 9/13 | Observation of stratospheric ozone | No Data | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 9/16 | OMS (Observations of the Middle Stratosphere) + ALIAS II + Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer | --- No data --- | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 9/17 | Loading equipment test (picture digital transmission) | No Data | | | |
 | Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 9/18 | CASOLBA (CAlibration de cellules SOLaires sur vol BAllon) | Near Gimont, Midi-Pyrénées, France | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 9/19 | MKIV + ALIAS II + Dual-beam In-Situ UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer | --- No data --- | | | |
| Sanriku (JP) | 9/19 | Loading equipment test (PLD command test) | No Data | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 9/25 | SDLA-LAMA (Spectromètre à Diode Laser Accordable - Laser pour l'Analyse du Méthane Atmosphérique) | No Data | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 9/28 | BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope) | In the southwest of Arizona, USA | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 10/1 | BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 10/5 | CWAS (Cryogenic Whole Air Sampler) | --- No data --- | | | |
| Ft. Sumner (NM) | 10/9 | NEUTRON SPECTROMETER | --- No data --- | | | |
| Aire Sur L'Adour (FR) | 10/9 | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS | --- No data --- | | | |
| McMurdo (AQ) | 12/9 | PATHFINDER | Lost over Pacific Ocean. | | | |
| McMurdo (AQ) | 12/12 | TRACER (Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation) | About 100 miles away from McMurdo Station, Antarctica | | | |
| McMurdo (AQ) | 12/17 | TIGER (Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder) | At a latitude of -71° 45.6' and a longitude of 58° 45.6' near the Australian Mawson Base. | | | |
| Nova Ponte (MG) | 12/18 | MASCO (Telescopio de Mascara Codificada) | No flight | | | |
See launches from 2002
