The French scientific balloon activities in 1999-2000 and future campaigns

The French space agency, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), has a significant balloon activity. This paper gives an updated overview of its scientific balloon program. We first introduce the bases of this program, before listing the different types of balloons offered to scientists...

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Hauptverfasser: Dulac, Francois, Papineau, Nicole, Faucon, Pierre
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The French space agency, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), has a significant balloon activity. This paper gives an updated overview of its scientific balloon program. We first introduce the bases of this program, before listing the different types of balloons offered to scientists and the launch sites used. Then we report on the recent scientific balloon campaigns, and present our program for the forthcoming years.
ISSN:0379-6566