Complete list of stratospheric balloon launches by year, ordered chronologically, with flight details, specific payload, images, etc.
Detailed information and launch logs for main balloon launch facilities including balloon bases, airports, and ships around the world.
Ordered chronologically, detailed accounts of many balloon missions containing description of the payloads, details of the flight, pictures, videos and links to external references.
The stories that shaped scientific ballooning. Events and happenings, many of them memorable and epic, some others funny, a few curious or strange and even some tragedies.
Brief overview of those individuals, organizations, programs and events that had contributed to some extent to the development of scientific ballooning.
Remembering every month important events and dates of scientific ballooning history
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Left: The best picture of the Chinese balloon, taken by Frank Melliere above Illinois
Weekly Balloon News is a somewhat regular bulletin containing balloon-related news of what's going on in the field, some speculation (fancy term for "insider data" from sources I can’t reveal), historical images, and details about the new contents that week after week enrich this humble project.
Launched from | In flight since | Payload or experiment | Last known status |
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![]() | 5/24/2023 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 629 | STILL IN FLIGHT --> SEE IN THE MAP |
![]() | 5/3/2023 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 628 | STILL IN FLIGHT --> SEE IN THE MAP |
![]() | 3/2/2023 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 620 | The balloon completed 62 days aloft on May 3th, 2023. Currently floating above the Atlantic Ocean near the Gulf of Guinea |
Launch base | Date | Experiment | Flight duration |
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![]() | 2023/5/17 | SCEYE INFINITY- STRATOSPHERIC AIRSHIP | 2 h 30 m |
![]() | 2023/5/13 | EUSO-SPB2 (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super-Pressure Balloon 2) | 44 h |
![]() | 2023/5/12 | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | 1 h 40 m |
![]() | 2023/5/12 | SRC (Sample Return Capsule) | 3 h |
![]() | 2023/4/29 | GRAINE (Gamma-Ray Astro-Imager with Nuclear Emulsion) | 26 h 45 m |
![]() | 2023/4/12 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 627 | 4 d 20 h |
![]() | 2023/4/10 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 626 | 3 h |
![]() | 2023/4/9 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 625 | 7 d 22 h 20 m |
![]() | 2023/4/8 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 624 | 8 d 22 h |
![]() | 2023/4/3 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 623 | 9 h |
![]() | 2023/3/31 | STRATOLLITE - HAWAIIAN TEST #2 | ~ 15 h |
![]() | 2023/3/29 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 622 | 8 h |
![]() | 2023/3/27 | STRATOLLITE - HAWAIIAN TEST #1 | ~ 15 h |
![]() | 2023/3/18 | PAYLOAD UNKNOWN | ~ 2 h |
![]() | 2023/3/15 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 621 | 2 d 15 h 15 m |
![]() | 2023/3/10 | STRATOLLITE - SCEPTER PERMIAN TEST | 5 h |
![]() | 2023/2/17 | FPS100 - INFRARED TELESCOPE | --- |
![]() | 2023/2/10 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 619 | 1 d 21 h |
![]() | 2023/2/7 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 618 | 2 d 16 h |
![]() | 2023/2/1 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 617 | 3 d 11 h 49 m |
![]() | 2023/1/31 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 616 | 2 d 8 h 49 m |
![]() | 2022/12/21 | SPIDER (Suborbital Polarimeter for Inflation Dust and the Epoch of Reionization) | 16 d 7 h |
![]() | 2022/12/7 | HALO SPACE CAPSULE FLIGHT TEST | 4 h |
![]() | 2022/12/2 | TEST FLIGHT | 1 h 57 m |
![]() | 2022/11/3 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 613 | 17 h |
![]() | 2022/10/30 | SCEYE INFINITY- STRATOSPHERIC AIRSHIP | 4 h 30 m |
![]() | 2022/10/27 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 612 | 29 h |
![]() | 2022/10/20 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 611 | 49 h |
![]() | 2022/10/18 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 609 | 5 d 5 h |
![]() | 2022/10/18 | THUNDERHEAD FLIGHT 610 | 10 d |