AbstractLarge “Heavy Duty” Balloons are regularly operated in Europe since 1977, where CNES along with Italian and Spanish organizations, ASI and INTA, created the Transmediterranean flight facility, so-called “ODISSEA”. More than fifty flights have since then been achieved, using large polyethylene balloons of which the volume may exceed 1 million cubic meters with payload of more than two tons. This activity has been recently extended to the Southern Hemisphere, where a first campaign took place in 1988 from a site located in Australia. A rather intense activity will be developped during 1992, as a new campaign, organised by CNES, will take place on the Australian site, followed few months later by a series of Transmediterraean flights.


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    Title :

    Balloons flights in France and in Europe


    Contributors:
    Soubrier, A. (author) / Audebert, M. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 14 , 2 ; 169-172


    Publication date :

    1993-01-01


    Size :

    4 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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