Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 8/19/1996 at 9:44 utc
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon model 100z Zodiac - 100.000 m3
Balloon serial number: 100Z Nº 80
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/21/1996
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 40 h 20 m
Campaign: INTERBOA
Payload weight: 469 kgs
Gondola weight: 257 kgs
External references
- Electric and magnetic field measurements in the Scandinavian auroral zone with quasistationary balloons Advances in Space Research, Volume 26, Issue 9, Pag. 1389 (2000)
- First detection of a terrestrial MeV X-ray burst Geophys. Res. Lett. 25, 4109 (1998)
- Hard X-rays and electric field in the subauroral afternoon sector Advances in Space Research, Volume 26, Issue 9, Pag. 1393 (2000)
- INTERBOA: a balloon project for auroral studies and magnetosphere/ionosphere research Advances in Space Research, Volume 30, Issue 5, Pag. 1371 (2002)
- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
- Precipitation of relativistic electrons by interaction with electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 105, A3, 5381 (2000)
- The 1996 INTERBOA (Balloon Observations of Auroras) Campaign Washington University website
Images of the mission
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