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Swedish and Swiss high tech on a long duration balloon flight over the Atlantic

Stockolm, Sweden - The gondola was lifted by a large balloon of 334.000 m3

At 7:07 local time on Saturday 28 June a large balloon-borne experiment called MEAP took off from SSC: launch facility Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. The aim of the flight is to perform tests of new techniques connected to the flight itself and to the new mass spectrometer planned to be used in the future on space flights to other planets. The gondola was lifted by a large balloon of 334.000...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1091770
Rome, Italy, 07/01/2008 17:44
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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