Andoya | 1/14 | --- | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) + OPC (Optical Particle Counter) | --- No Data --- |
Syowa | 1/19 | --- | GRAB SAMPLING SYSTEM | --- No Data --- |
Andoya | 1/19 | --- | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) + OPC (Optical Particle Counter) | --- No Data --- |
Laramie (WY) | 1/22 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
Syowa | 1/22 | --- | GRAB SAMPLING SYSTEM | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 1/24 | 1 h 45 m | EVAL BALLOON TEST FLIGHT | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 1/27 | 3 h 50 m | THIN MATERIAL BALLOON TEST | --- No Data --- |
Andoya | 1/29 | --- | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES | --- No Data --- |
Juazeiro do Norte (CE) | 1/30 | --- | OMS (Observations of the Middle Stratosphere) | Aborted flight |
ESRANGE | 2/2 | 1 h 54 m | OPENING FLIGHT | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/9 | 3 h 49 m | RADIBAL (RADIomètre BALlon) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/10 | 2 h | CRYOGENIC AIR SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/10 | --- | WATER VAPOUR MEASUREMENTS | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/10 | 3 h 40 m | MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/11 | 2 h 51 m | TRIPLE (BONBON + FISH + ?) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/14 | 2 h 5 m | ELHYSA (Etude de L'Hygromérie Stratosphérique) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/14 | 2 h 50 m | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS | --- No Data --- |
Juazeiro do Norte (CE) | 2/14 | 5 h 20 m | ALIAS II + UV O3 PHOTOMETER + ARGUS | 10 miles from Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil |
ESRANGE | 2/22 | 3 h 7 m | CRYOGENIC SAMPLER | In Finland |
ESRANGE | 2/23 | --- | Optical Particle Counter | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/24 | 2 h 46 m | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + SAOZ-BrO | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/24 | 13 d | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) | In Greenland. |
ESRANGE | 2/25 | --- | WATER VAPOUR MEASUREMENTS | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/25 | 2 h | CRYOGENIC AIR SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/26 | 3 h | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + CAESR (Cryogenic Atmospheric Emission Spectre-Radiometer) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/26 | 3 h 37 m | AMON (Absorption de Minoritaires, Ozone et NOx) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 2/28 | 2 h 10 m | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) | --- No Data --- |
Holloman AFB (NM) | 3/6 | --- | ALPHA | --- No Data --- |
TIFR Hyderabad | 3/15 | --- | XMPC (Xenon filled Multi-anode Proportional Counter telescope) | Control instrumentation failure. |
Andoya | 3/16 | --- | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 3/17 | 21 d & 3 h | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) | Near Trondheim, Norway |
ESRANGE | 3/18 | 3 h 30 m | CRYOGENIC SAMPLER / DESCARTES | In Finland |
ESRANGE | 3/18 | 2 h 35 m | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 3/20 | 2 h 20 m | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + SAOZ-BrO | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 3/21 | 2 h 35 m | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + CAESR (Cryogenic Atmospheric Emission Spectre-Radiometer) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 3/24 | 3 h | MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | --- No Data --- |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 3/30 | 10 h | TEST FLIGHT | 8 miles N of Mountainair, New Mexico, US |
TIFR Hyderabad | 3/30 | --- | LASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment) | --- No Data --- |
ESRANGE | 4/28 | --- | TEST FLIGHT | --- No Data --- |
Fort Wainwright (AK) | 4/30 | 8 h 50 m | FIRS-2 (far infrared Fourier transform spectrometer) + UV O3 PHOTOMETER | 10 miles SW of Bettles, Alaska, US |
ESRANGE | 5/1 | --- | OZONE SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/7 | 18 h 30 m | EXITE-2 (Energetic X-Ray Imaging Telescope Experiment) + MIXE-2 (Marshall Imaging X-ray Experiment) | W Oklahoma City, US |
Fort Wainwright (AK) | 5/8 | 8 h 30 m | MKIV INTERFEROMETER | 35 miles SW of Tanana, Alaska, US |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 5/12 | 4 h 15 m | MEFISTO | --- No Data --- |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/20 | 26 h | SOFCAL (Scintillating Optical Fiber Calorimeter) | 14 miles SW of Congress, Arizona, US |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 5/24 | 5 h | CAPRICE 2 (Cosmic AntiParticle Ring Imaging Cherenkov) | 13 miles of Corona, New Mexico, US |
Sanriku | 5/29 | 1 h 58 m | FLIGHT PERFORMANCE TEST OF BALLOON | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 5/30 | 6 h 46 m | CRYOGENIC SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
Palestine (TX) | 6/2 | F 6 h 39 m | MSAM-2 (Medium-Scale Anisotropy Measurement) | 25 miles SE of Sonora, Texas, US |
Sanriku | 6/2 | 8 h 26 m | BETS (Balloon borne Electron Telescope with Scintillating fibers) | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 6/7 | 3 h | FLIGHT PERFORMANCE TEST OF BALLOON | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 6/8 | 1 h 33 m | EVAL BALLOON TEST FLIGHT | --- No Data --- |
Palestine (TX) | 6/11 | F 4 h 32 m | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | 15 miles WNW of San Saba, Texas, US |
Gap-Tallard | 6/12 | 8 h 1 m | OPENING FLIGHT + INMARSAT TEST | --- No Data --- |
Laramie (WY) | 6/12 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
Gap-Tallard | 6/17 | 6 h 24 m | MACSIMS (Measurement of Atmospheric Constituents by Selective Ion Mass Spectrometry) | --- No Data --- |
Gap-Tallard | 6/19 | 8 h 23 m | LPMA (Limb Profile Monitor of the Atmosphere) + DOAS | --- No Data --- |
Fort Wainwright (AK) | 6/23 | 12 d 8 h | TEST FLIGHT + COSMIC RAY EXPERIMENT | 300 miles E of Inuvik, Canada. |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 6/23 | 6 h 42 m | TRIPLE (BONBON) | --- No Data --- |
Gap-Tallard | 6/24 | 2 h 35 m | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + SAOZ-BrO | --- No Data --- |
Gap-Tallard | 6/25 | 2 h 48 m | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES | --- No Data --- |
Laramie (WY) | 6/25 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
Gap-Tallard | 6/27 | 2 h 13 m | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) + OPC (Optical Particle Counter) | --- No Data --- |
Fort Wainwright (AK) | 6/30 | 5 h 50 m | OMS (Observations of the Middle Stratosphere) + ALIAS II + UV O3 PHOTOMETER + ARGUS | 12 miles NNW of Nenana, Alaska, US |
Gap-Tallard | 7/1 | 6 h 13 m | MIPAS-B2 (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Balloonborne) | --- No Data --- |
Gap-Tallard | 7/1 | 7 h 19 m | DATA TRANSMITION SYSTEM TEST | --- No Data --- |
Fort Wainwright (AK) | 7/8 | 7 h | MKIV INTERFEROMETER + UV O3 PHOTOMETER | 21 miles NW of Nenana, Alaska, US |
Kamchatka | 7/9 | 139 h 30 m | RUNJOB V (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program) | In Nizhny, Russia |
Kamchatka | 7/11 | 139 h 30 m | RUNJOB VI (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program) | --- No Data --- |
Kamchatka | 7/16 | 3 h | RUNJOB VII (RUssia-Nippon JOint Balloon program) | Failure of the balloon after three hours aloft. |
Trapani | 7/23 | 20 h 27 m | CRASH (Cosmic Rays And Strange Hadronic matter) | In Los Barrios, Cadiz, Spain |
Laramie (WY) | 7/25 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
Palestine (TX) | 7/25 | F 3 h 21 m | LXeGRIT (Liquid Xenon Gama-Ray Imaging Telescope) | 10 miles NW of Sterling City, Texas, US |
Lynn Lake (MB) | 7/28 | 26 h | BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer) | 5 miles NW of Dixonville, Alberta, Canadá |
Palestine (TX) | 8/2 | F 4 h | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | --- No Data --- |
Trapani | 8/6 | 3 h 53 m | HASI (Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument) - PWA | On the Mediterranean Sea |
Trapani | 8/10 | 3 h 45 m | TRANSMED | In Marettimo, Sicily, Italy |
Palestine (TX) | 8/12 | 3 h 30 m | BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics) | 2 miles SW of Mount Calm, Texas, US |
Palestine (TX) | 8/14 | F 41 m | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | 12 miles NW of Morgan City, Texas, US |
ESRANGE | 8/16 | --- | OZONE SAMPLER | --- No Data --- |
Ny-Alesund | 8/19 | 2 h | OPTICAL OZONE SENSOR | --- No Data --- |
Palestine (TX) | 8/24 | F 3 h 59 m | SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION | 12 miles SE of Sonora, Texas, US |
Palestine (TX) | 8/25 | F 4 h 14 m | LXeGRIT (Liquid Xenon Gama-Ray Imaging Telescope) | 15 miles SE of Midland, Texas, US |
Palestine (TX) | 8/29 | F 5 h 56 m | BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics) | 18 miles SSE of Fort Stockton, Texas, US |
Lynn Lake (MB) | 9/2 | 21 h 20 m | AESOP (Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload) + LEE (Low Energy Electrons) | 17 miles NW of Hudson bay, Canada |
Sanriku | 9/5 | 3 h 4 m | ATMOSPHERIC OZONE OBSERVATON | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 9/9 | 3 h 6 m | OBSERVATION OF STRATOSPHERIC NO2 | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 9/9 | 3 h 34 m | OXYGEN ATOM DENSITY AND OZONE OBSERVATION | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/11 | 3 h 2 m | OPENING FLIGHT | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 9/12 | 1 h 35 m | EVAL BALLOON TEST FLIGHT | --- No Data --- |
Sanriku | 9/13 | 2 h 45 m | FLIGHT PERFORMANCE TEST OF BALLOON | --- No Data --- |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 9/24 | 26 h 50 m | TIGER (Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder) | 8 miles SE of Coldwater, Kansas, US |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/24 | 3 h 2 m | MIR BALLOON TEST | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/25 | 11 h 25 m | PIROG 8 (Pointing InfraRed Observing Gondola) | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/27 | 3 h 13 m | FAR INFRARED TELESCOPE - MIL III MISSION | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 9/30 | 4 h 5 m | AEROSOL ANALISIS | --- No Data --- |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 10/4 | 21 h | RICH II (Ring Imaging Cerenkov Detector) | 11 miles W of Apache, Oklahoma, US |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 10/7 | 3 h 42 m | MEFISTO | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 10/8 | 2 h 51 m | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + DESCARTES | In Tarn-et-Garonne |
Fort Sumner (NM) | 10/15 | 7 h 50 m | HEXIS (High Energy X-ray Imaging Spectrometer) | W of Wichita Falls, Texas, US |
Laramie (WY) | 10/22 | --- | AEROSOL COUNTER | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 10/28 | 3 h 14 m | ETNA (Equipement de Télécommunication Numérique pour Aérostat) | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 10/31 | 2 h 40 m | Technological flight 10 meters diameter super pressure balloon | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 11/7 | 2 h 21 m | INMARSAT SYSTEM TEST | --- No Data --- |
Juazeiro do Norte (CE) | 11/11 | 6 h 20 m | UV O3 PHOTOMETER + ARGUS | --- No Data --- |
Juazeiro do Norte (CE) | 11/20 | 5 h 50 m | ALIAS II + UV O3 PHOTOMETER | At coordinates 7º 5' - 40º 6' |
Baurú GLB (SP) | 11/23 | 2 h 3 m | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter). | --- No Data --- |
Aire Sur L'Adour | 11/26 | 2 h 40 m | SUPER PRESSURE BALLOON TEST | In Viella, Gers, France |
Baurú GLB (SP) | 11/26 | 2 h 2 m | LABS (Laser Backscatter Sonde) / OPC (Optical Particle Counter). | --- No Data --- |
Baurú GLB (SP) | 11/29 | --- | SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) + SAOZ-BrO | --- No Data --- |