XL-CALIBUR

Sitio de lanzamiento: European Space Range, Kiruna, Suecia  
Dia y hora de lanzamiento: 11/7/2022 23:45 utc
Lanzamiento y operación del globo a cargo de: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF)
Tipo de globo/fabricante/volumen/composicion: Globo de Presión Cero Raven Aerostar - W39.57 (39.500.000 cuft)
Nº de vuelo: 720N
Dia y hora de fin del vuelo (L para hora de aterrizaje, W ultimo contacto conocido, resto hora de separacion): 18/7/2022 6:50 utc
Duración del vuelo (F: tiempo a flotacion, resto tiempo total de vuelo en d:dias / h:horas / m:minutos): 6 d 7 h 45 m
Sitio de aterrizaje o ultima posición conocida: 500 km al NO de Yellowknife, Territorios del Noroeste, Canada

• XL-Calibur website Washington University at St Louis
• Massive balloon examining black hole passes over Nunavut before landing in N.W.T. CBC Canada
• Mysterious object observed in the sky. - It's absolutely huge! California 18 website
• Scientific ballooning is not for the faint of heart WUSTL's The Ampersand
• The design and performance of the XL-Calibur anticoincidence shield arXiv, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
• The power of persistence WUSTL's The Ampersand
• XL-Calibur reached the sky: ''The most beautiful launch" SSC website
• XL-Calibur telescope to examine the most extreme objects in the universe The Source, WUSTL, September 27, 2021
• XL-Calibur telescope to examine the most extreme objects in the universe: black holes and neutron stars The Ampersand, WUSTL, September 16, 2021
• XL-Calibur website at Swedish Space Agency
• XL-Calibur, a second-generation balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission Astroparticle Physics, Volume 126, March 2021