Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 2/7/2002 at 12:42
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon model 402z 400.000 m3
Balloon serial number: 402Z Nº 84
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 2/8/2002 at ~ 9:40
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 21 h 7 m
Landing site: Near Norilsk, Russian Federation
Campaign: ARCHEOPS II
Payload weight: 1146 kgs
Gondola weight: 698 kgs
External references
- An update on Archeops: flights and data products Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 290, Issue 1, p. 119
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- Archeops Campaign Journal Archeops project website
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- Archeops results C. R. Physique 4 (2003)
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- ARCHEOPS: a balloon experiment for measuring the cosmic microwave background anisotropies Advances in Space Research, Volume 33, Issue 10, p. 1790-1792
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- Global spectral energy distribution of the Crab Nebula in the prospect of the Planck satellite polarisation calibration Astrophys.J.711:417-423,2010
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- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE Swedish Space Corporation website
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- Measurements of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies with ARCHEOPS Advances in Space Research, Volume 34, Issue 3, p. 479-482
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- No evidence of millimetre excess emission in the Crab Nebula Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. ArcheoCrab
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- No evidence of millimetre excess emission in the Crab Nebula Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. ArcheoCrab
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- Submillimetre point sources from the Archeops experiment: Very Cold Clumps in the Galactic Plane Astron. Astrophys, 2008
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