Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 9/7/1998 at 10.31
Launch site: Cotopaxi Air Base, Latacunga, Ecuador
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Super Pressure Balloon 10 mts
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): ??/??/1998
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 24 d
Payload weight: 25 kgs
Balloon lost over Micronesia due to cold night.
External references
- Evaluation of ECMWF ERA-40 temperature and wind in the lower tropical stratosphere since 1988 from past long-duration balloon measurements Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 3399
- Planetary and gravity wave activity in the equatorial lower stratosphere as seen by ultra-long duration balloons Advances in Space Research Vol. 30; Iss. 5 (2002)
- Pressurised Balloon Systems: Results of Ecuador 1998 and THESEO 1999 Campaigns 14th ESA Symposium held 31 May-3 June, 1999 in Potsdam, Germany
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