The international space operations center for sounding rockets, named Esrange (Sweden), is presented. The range of services offered to users is stressed. Experiments carried out include microgravity, geophysics, space physics, astronomy and the chemistry of the upper atmosphere. Data from the extensive network of ground based scientific instruments in northern Scandinavia can be displayed at Esrange. The high performance vehicles and the balloon payloads, which can be launched at Esrange are listed. The land recovery operations, concerning rockets and balloons, are shown to be reliable at Esrange.
Esrange
1989
6 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Meteorological Instruments & Instrument Platforms , Ground support systems , Launching bases , Sounding rockets , User requirements , Astronomy , Balloons , Geophysics , Payloads , Reduced gravity , Sweden , Foreign technology , Esrange , Atomspheric sounding
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