Early on Sunday morning, at 01:46 local time, the scientific instrument MIPAS/B-Telis was successfully launched from Esrange Space Center. The balloon gondola reached a hight of 34 km and landed about 14 hours later 40 km West of Kusamo in Eastern Finland.

The scientific teams from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, lead by Mr Hermann Oelhaf, and DLR-IMF, lead by Mr. Manfred Birk, are very pleased with the flight and they have received valuable scientific data. The scientific objectives was to perform time dependent measurement of trace gases and cloud properties in the upper troposphere and stratosphere with various remote sensing techniques inside the chemically activated vortex. In parallel, validation of data on board the ESA satellite Envisat and coordination with aircraft measurements during the Reconcile EU-FP7 arctic campaign at Kiruna Airport were also made.

The balloon flight was performed within the framework of the EuroLaunch co-operation between SSC/Esrange and DLR/Moraba. 


More about MIPAS/B-Telis.


For further information please contact:
Mr. Ola Widell, Campaign Manager, Science Services Division at Esrange Space Center
Swedish Space Corporation
Phone: +46 980-720 31 or +46 70 627 20 31
E-mail: ola.widell@esrange.ssc.se