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Stratospheric balloons launched on 2006

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Launch siteDateScientific ExperimentPayload landing site
ESRANGE (SE)1/9-- No Data --Near Porttipahdan Tekojärvi in Finland.   
ESRANGE (SE)1/16SALOMON (Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et Nox)In the north part of Finland, near the lake Inari.  
ESRANGE (SE)1/20SPIRALE (Spectroscopie Infra-Rouge par Absorption de Laser Embarqué)Near the village of Lannavaara, in the north part of Sweden  
UFSM Santa María, (RS)2/15SPRITES DETECTIONNear Agua Boa, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil  
ESRANGE (SE)2/18OPENING CAMPAIGN TECHNOLOGICAL FLIGHT + FLASH BNear the village of Karesuando in the north part of Sweden  
ESRANGE (SE)3/1LPMA-IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) + Mini DOAS50 km northwest of Tingisautio, in the northeast part of Finland 
UFSM Santa María, (RS)3/17SPRITES DETECTIONPayload not recovered. Estimated landing site near Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil  
Sanriku (JP)5/27MICROGRAVITY CAPSULE - TEST FLIGHTIn the Japan Sea   
Sanriku (JP)5/31GAMMA RAY OBSERVATIONNo Data   
ESRANGE (SE)6/2AESOP (Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload)Southwest of Victoria Island, 163 miles W of Cambridge Bay, Northern Canadá 
Sanriku (JP)6/3STRATOSPHERIC CRYOGENIC SAMPLINGNo Data   
Sanriku (JP)6/8SUPER PRESSURE BALLOON FLIGHT TESTNo Data   
ESRANGE (SE)6/12ULDB (Ultra Long Duration Balloon)51 miles SO of Esrange, Sweden 
Sanriku (JP)6/13X-RAY OBSERVATIONNo Data   
Svalbard (NO)6/14Trailblazer + PEGASO (Polar Explorer for Geomagnetics And other Scientific Observations)At coordinates 81º 28' North - 5º 24' West in the north part of Greenland. 
ESRANGE (SE)6/19BEXUS IV (Balloon Experiment for University Students)10 km west of Naimakka village, Sweden 
ESRANGE (SE)7/8TRACER (Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation)75 nm SSE of Resolute, Nunavut Province, Canada 
NSBF, Palestine (TX)7/22ARCADE (Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission)40 miles Southeast of Fort Stockton, Texas, USA 
Sanriku (JP)8/25SPRITE OBSERVATIONIn the Pacific Ocean   
Ft. Sumner (NM)8/26STRATOFILM SF-450 (Technological Flight)20 km NE of Estancia, NM, USA 
Sanriku (JP)8/30SOLAR SAILIn the Pacific Ocean  
Sanriku (JP)9/1SMILE (Sub-MeV Gamma-Ray Imaging Loaded-on-Balloon Experiment)No Data   
Sanriku (JP)9/2SUPER PRESSURE BALLOON FLIGHT TESTNo Data   
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/4HASP (High Altitude Student Platform)42 miles N-NW of Flagstaff, Arizona, USA 
Sanriku (JP)9/4NO DATANo Data   
Sanriku (JP)9/13SUPER THIN FILM HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON FLIGHT TESTNo Data   
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/18FIRST (Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere)    
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/25HERO (High Energy Replicated Optics)31.5 nm east southeast of Fort Sumner, NM, USA 
Ft. Sumner (NM)9/30STRATOFILM SF-430 (Technological Flight)13 nm N of Fort Sumner, NM, USA 
SLB, Cachoeira Paulista (SP)11/19NUSMIT (Nagoya University SuperMirror Imaging Telescope experiment)Sunk in a sector located 50 km from Restinga de Marambaia, in the Rio de Janeiro State ocean shore, Brazil   
McMurdo (AQ)12/14ANITA (Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna)At coordinates, 84º 33' S, 22º 07' W in the Antarctic Plateau  
McMurdo (AQ)12/21BLAST (Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope)West of the Transantarctic Mountains, approximately 410 nm SW of McMurdo Station  
McMurdo (AQ)12/24SBI (Solar Bolometric Imager)54 miles E-SE of Williams Field, Antarctica 
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