PoGO+ (Polarised Gamma-ray Observer Plus)

Balloon launched on: 7/12/2016 at 3:17 utc
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden  
Balloon launched by: Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Raven 39.570.000 cuft
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 7/18/2016
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 6 d 20 h
Landing site: In Victoria Island, Canada

• PoGO+ website KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Accretion geometry of the black-hole binary Cygnus X-1 from X-ray polarimetry Nature Astronomy, 2018
• Calibration and performance studies of the balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimeter PoGO+ Accepted for publication in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A
• KTH team builds telescope to investigate mysterious Crab pulsar KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
• Optimising a balloon-borne polarimeter in the hard X-ray domain: From the PoGOLite Pathfinder to PoGO+ Astroparticle Physics, Volume 82, p. 99
• PoGO+ polarimetric constraint on the synchrotron jet emission of Cygnus X-1 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
• The PoGO+ Balloon-Borne Hard X-ray Polarimetry Mission Galaxies 2018, 6 (1), 30
• The Stratospheric Balloon Mission PoGO+ from Esrange to Victoria Island, Canada AIAA Balloon Systems Conference, 2017