In the table below you will find the records of stratospheric balloons launched from different countries and places during 1990, which are currently available in StratoCat's database. Each row shows basic data about the launch base from which departed, date and time of the launch, and if available the duration of the mission and the site of termination or landing place of the payload.
Regarding the kind of payload or experiment transported in each balloon mission, if you click the experiment name a text will be displayed showing the name of the scientific institutions involved in that mission, a brief resume of the purpose of the experiment carried onboard as well the scientific results obtained, and other information of relevance from that particular mission. Finaly at the bottom of the window there are links to external references. In some cases, these references are available throught scientific websites or journals for free. In other cases however, the information was published on journals only accesible throught direct suscription or using the access provided by Universities or research centers.
| Launch base | Date | Flight Duration | Experiment | Payload landing place or cause of the failure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 McMurdo | 1/1 | 20 m | GAMMA RAY / X-RAY / COSMIC RAY DETECTOR | 1/2 mile from launch pad |
| Syowa | 1/5 | 28 d | PPB (Polar Patrol Balloon) - Test flight | --- No Data --- |
| McMurdo | 1/8 | 3 h | X-RAY DETECTOR | 2 miles W of Williams Field, Antarctica |
 ESRANGE | 1/9 | --- | LMD | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/10 | --- | ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique) + Telemetry test | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/11 | --- | BONBON + CRYOGENIC SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/13 | --- | KR 007 | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/16 | --- | KR 010 | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/18 | --- | LOAL-LILLE | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/18 | --- | CNRS-SA | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/19 | --- | ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique) | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/19 | --- | KR 013 | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/24 | --- | KR 017 | --- No Data --- |
 Laramie (WY) | 1/26 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/26 | --- | ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique) | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/27 | --- | KR 023 | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/29 | --- | KFA | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/30 | --- | KR 023 | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/30 | --- | MPIK | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/31 | --- | CNRS | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 1/31 | --- | KR 025 | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 2/2 | --- | KR 027 | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 2/5 | --- | MPIK | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 2/6 | --- | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 2/8 | --- | TECHNO BA | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 2/9 | --- | JUMBO + CRYOGENIC SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
 Aire Sur L'Adour | 2/19 | --- | RASCIBA (Radar - SCIdar - Ballon) | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 2/20 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 2/20 | --- | RASCIBA (Radar - SCIdar - Ballon) | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 2/22 | --- | RASCIBA (Radar - SCIdar - Ballon) | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 3/1 | --- | RASCIBA (Radar - SCIdar - Ballon) | --- No Data --- |
 Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 3/13 | 23 h | MAGNETIC STORM OBSERVATION | In California, Paraná, Brazil |
| Laramie (WY) | 3/21 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
 TIFR Hyderabad | 3/24 | --- | TICAL MARK II TELESCOPE | Control instrumentation failure. Payload lost |
| Laramie (WY) | 4/6 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 4/9 | 3 h 55 m | Gas sampling and radiation measurements | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 4/20 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 4/26 | --- | LONG DURATION BALLOON TEST | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 5/4 | 6 h | MIPAS-B1 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | --- No Data --- |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/4 | --- | SDS (Solar Disk Sextant) | 15 miles W of Sayre, Oklahoma, US |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/5 | --- | BALLOON STRESS TEST | 10 miles W of Tulia, Texas, US |
 Xiang He | 5/11 | 4 h 30 m | NEW BALLOON FILM TEST | --- No Data --- |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/12 | --- | UV O3 PHOTOMETER | 8 miles W of Dimmit, Texas, US |
| Xiang He | 5/15 | --- | OLD BALLOON FILM TEST | No Flight. Balloon burst at inflation |
| Xiang He | 5/17 | 3 h | OLD BALLOON FILM TEST | --- No Data --- |
 Sanriku | 5/20 | LAUNCH TEST | --- No Data --- | |
| Xiang He | 5/21 | 6 h | TELEMETRY / TELECOMMAND & CMOS COMPUTER TEST | --- No Data --- |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/21 | --- | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | Aborted flight |
| ESRANGE | 5/22 | --- | PIROG 4 (Pointing InfraRed Observing Gondola) | The gondola landed practically undamaged in a swamp a few hundred meters from the launch pad. |
| Laramie (WY) | 5/22 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 5/23 | --- | MIKROBA 4 (MIKRO-g with Ballon drop capsule) | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 5/24 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 5/24 | F 7 h 4 m | MIT RADIOMETER | 32 miles SW of Brownwood, Texas, US |
| Sanriku | 5/30 | INFRARED TELESCOPE | Balloon failure at 10 km | |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/31 | 21 h | GRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer) | 5 miles NE of Show Low, Arizona, US |
| Xiang He | 6/1 | 2 h | ATMOSPHERIC EXPERIMENT | Insuffcient lift force in the balloon |
| Palestine (TX) | 6/4 | F 9 h | INTERFEROMETER | 10 miles SW of Coleman, Texas, US |
| Sanriku | 6/4 | 7 h | CRYOGENIC SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 6/4 | 28 h | FIRS-2 (far infrared Fourier transform spectrometer) / UV O3 PHOTOMETER | 22 miles NW of Prescott, Arizona, US |
| Laramie (WY) | 6/7 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Xiang He | 6/8 | 3 h 30 m | MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENT | --- No Data --- |
| Xiang He | 6/13 | 7 h | STAR-1 HARD X-RAY TELESCOPE | --- No Data --- |
| Xiang He | 6/18 | 5 h 30 m | FAR INFRARED TELESCOPE | --- No Data --- |
| Xiang He | 6/22 | 3 h 30 m | ATMOSPHERIC EXPERIMENT | --- No Data --- |
| Xiang He | 6/23 | 3 h 30 m | OZONE AND WIND FIELD MEASUREMENTS | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 6/26 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
 Trapani | 6/27 | --- | AROME | Balloon burst at 22 km. Payload recovered from sea the next day. |
| Palestine (TX) | 7/2 | F 6 h 40 m | MAX (Millimeter wavelength Anisotropy eXperiment) | 23 miles WNW of San Angelo, Texas, US |
| Trapani | 7/9 | ~ 9 h | FIGARO II (French Italian Gamma Ray Observatory) | --- No Data --- |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 7/10 | --- | HEAVY LOAD TEST | 8 miles S of Belen, New Mexico, US |
| Laramie (WY) | 7/11 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 7/20 | F 1 h 17 m | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | Freefall from 120 kft. 25 Miles N of Brady, Texas, US |
| Trapani | 7/22 | --- | THEMIS | --- No Data --- |
| Trapani | 7/25 | --- | TRIP | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 7/26 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Roswell (NM) | 7/28 | 4 h 40 m | PATHFINDER PROGRAM | --- No Data --- |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 7/28 | --- | HEAVY LOAD TEST | 9 miles NW of Corona, New Mexico, US |
| Roswell (NM) | 7/29 | 3 h 55 m | PATHFINDER PROGRAM | --- No Data --- |
| Roswell (NM) | 7/30 | 5 h 25 m | PATHFINDER PROGRAM | --- No Data --- |
| Roswell (NM) | 7/31 | 5 h 40 m | PATHFINDER PROGRAM | --- No Data --- |
| Roswell (NM) | 8/2 | 4 h 25 m | PATHFINDER PROGRAM | --- No Data --- |
| Xiang He | 8/5 | 73 h | TECHNOLOGICAL FLIGHT | 130 km from Tashkent, Russia |
| Laramie (WY) | 8/6 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Trapani | 8/6 | --- | ILIADA | --- No Data --- |
 Lynn Lake (MB) | 8/9 | --- | ALICE (A Large Isotopic Composition Experiment) | 35 miles SE of High Level, Alberta, Canada |
| Vanscoy (SK) | 8/12 | --- | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | --- No Data --- |
| Laramie (WY) | 8/13 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Palestine (TX) | 8/16 | F 2 h 42 m | OZP BALLOON TEST | 26 miles W of Brownwood, Texas, US |
| Vanscoy (SK) | 8/19 | --- | RADIOMETERS | --- No Data --- |
| Sanriku | 8/26 | 13 h | DC ELECTRIC FIELD (?) | --- No Data --- |
| Lynn Lake (MB) | 8/26 | --- | MAGNETIC SPECTROMETER | 28 miles SE of Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, Canada |
| Vanscoy (SK) | 8/26 | --- | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | --- No Data --- |
| ESRANGE | 8/27 | --- | PIROG 5 (Pointing InfraRed Observing Gondola) | Shootdown by soviet fighters near the Finish-Russian border. |
| Palestine (TX) | 8/29 | F 4 h 27 m | HIGH RESOLUTION IR SOLAR OBSERVATION | Inside Big Spring, Texas, US |
| Vanscoy (SK) | 8/30 | --- | RADIOMETERS | --- No Data --- |
| Sanriku | 8/31 | THIN FILM BALLOON TEST | --- No Data --- | |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/2 | F 8 h 27 m | LONG DURATION SYSTEMS TEST | 13 miles S of Sweetwater, Texas, US |
| Sanriku | 9/2 | FIBER REINFORCED BALLOON TEST | --- No Data --- | |
| Sanriku | 9/5 | URETHANE LAMINATED BALLOON TEST | --- No Data --- | |
| Palestine (TX) | 9/6 | F 4 h 48 m | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | 16 miles S of Mexia, Texas, US |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/6 | 3 h 30 m | FALKE | --- No Data --- |
| Tillamook (OR) | 9/8 | 31 h | EARTHWINDS (Dzhanibehov - Lachenmeier - Moses - Newman) | In Omak, Washington, US |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 9/19 | --- | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 10 miles NNW of Roswell, New Mexico, US |
| Laramie (WY) | 9/24 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/26 | ~ 12 h | FAR INFRARED TELESCOPE | Near Alès, Languedoc, France |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 9/26 | F 44 h | JACEE 9 (Japanese-American Collaborative Emulsion Experiment) | 13 miles NW of Olathe, Kansas, US |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 9/27 | --- | MKIV INTERFEROMETER + UV O3 PHOTOMETER | 47 miles ESE of Childress, Texas, US |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 10/6 | --- | ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique) | --- No Data --- |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 10/9 | --- | IBEX (Infrared Balloon-Borne Experiment) | 10 miles NE of Seymour, Texas, US |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 10/11 | --- | SDS (Solar Disk Sextant) | 13 miles S of Shawnee, Oklahoma, US |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 10/23 | --- | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | 17 miles E of Lockney, Texas, US |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 10/28 | --- | SUPERPRESSURE BALLOON | 10 miles S of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, US |
| Laramie (WY) | 10/29 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Fort Sumner (NM) | 10/30 | --- | ELBBO (Extended Life Balloon Borne Observatories Program) | 4.5 miles NW of Kenna, New Mexico, US |
| Aire Sur L'Adour | 11/10 | --- | FISH (Fast In situ Stratospheric Hygrometer) | --- No Data --- |
| Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 11/14 | 30 h | SUPERNOVA 1987 A OBSERVATION | In Meridiano, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
 Paraná | 11/18 | --- | PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR | --- No Data --- |
| Mendoza | 11/20 | 3 h 55 m | PORTS (Propagation des Ondes de Relief Tropospherique Stratospherique) | --- No Data --- |
| Mendoza | 11/23 | 5 h 19 m | PORTS (Propagation des Ondes de Relief Tropospherique Stratospherique) | --- No Data --- |
| Mendoza | 11/27 | 5 h 25 m | PORTS (Propagation des Ondes de Relief Tropospherique Stratospherique) | --- No Data --- |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 11/29 | 6 h 15 m | INFRARED ASTRONOMY | --- No Data --- |
| Cachoeira Paulista (SP) | 11/29 | 12 h | WELCOME I | In Ribas do Rio Pardo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil |
| Laramie (WY) | 11/30 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
| Mendoza | 12/2 | 5 h 24 m | PORTS (Propagation des Ondes de Relief Tropospherique Stratospherique) | --- No Data --- |
| McMurdo | 12/21 | 8 d 17 h 39 m | JACEE 10 + ANTIPODE + PAX | 113 miles SE of McMurdo Station, Antarctica |
| TIFR Hyderabad | 12/22 | 3 h 50 m | Ionization measurements, electro-dynamics experience and IMAP experience (Indian Middle Atmosphere Program) | --- No Data --- |
| Syowa | 12/25 | --- | PPB (Polar Patrol Balloon) | --- No Data --- |
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