MEAP balloon has landed

PRESSINFORMATION
from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF)

Last night, at around 2008-07-03 01:10:00 UTC (03:10 Swedish local time) the MEAP/P-BACE balloon platform landed by parachute in Canada at 67.17N 105.15W on a dry patch of land.

It was an extremely successful mission for the P-BACE instrument, both from a technical and a management point of view, thanks to all those involved from Esrange Space Center, Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, IRF and Universität Bern.

Efforts for P-BACE are now focusing on retrieval of the solid state data disks. More than 4500 mass spectra were recorded during the 116 hour-long flight.

More information can be found on our website, which will continue to be updated: http://www.irf.se/meap-pbace

For earlier press releases (in English and Swedish) see: http://www.irf.se/Topical/Press/

Contact:
Dr Martin Wieser
Swedish Institute of Space Physics
(Institutet för rymdfysik, IRF)
Box 812, SE-981 28 Kiruna, Sweden
Mail: wieser@irf.se
Phone: +46 980 79198
Fax: +46 980 79050