Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 8/24/1996 at 9:43 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 81
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/26/1996
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 42 h 18 m
Campaign: INTERBOA
Payload weight: 427 kgs
Gondola weight: 216 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)
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- Hard X-rays and electric field in the subauroral afternoon sector Advances in Space Research, Volume 26, Issue 9, Pag. 1393 (2000)
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- INTERBOA: a balloon project for auroral studies and magnetosphere/ionosphere research Advances in Space Research, Volume 30, Issue 5, Pag. 1371 (2002)
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- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE Swedish Space Corporation website
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- Payload motions detected by balloon-borne fluxgate-type magnetometers Advances in Space Research, Volume 26, Issue 9, Pag. 1423 (2000)
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- The 1996 INTERBOA (Balloon Observations of Auroras) Campaign Washington University website
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