MULTI-INSTRUMENTAL PLATFORM

This balloon flight has been carried out under the umbrella of the Honghu Special Project (Near Space Science Experiment System) a strategic pilot technology program launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences on March 2018. It focuses on the exploration and study of the near space environment, and relies on multi-type platforms to carry out the comprehensive detection of the near space with the most complete range of parameters possible.

Combined with multi-source data, the objective is to deeply describe the atmospheric environment, electromagnetic environment and radiation environment in the near space, and greatly improve the cognition and prediction of such realm. The aim of the program includes carrying balloon-based experiments in physics, chemistry, biology, optics, planetary space environment and remote sensing detection.Most of the balloon flights under the initiative made use of multi-instrumented platforms on which were performed experiments for all the disciplines mentioned above in a single flight.

Balloon launch operations are in charge of the Aerospace Information Research Institute.

Seven payloads were launched in this flight. Near-space environment detection data during the geomagnetic disturbance was successfully obtained at an altitude of between 22km and 24km.

Balloon launched on: 8/27/2019
Launch site: Dachaidan district, Qinghai Tibet Plateau, China  
Balloon launched by: Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR-CAS)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon  
Flight identification number: HH-19-8A
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/27/2019

The balloon was launched from Dachaidan, during the early morning of August 27, 2019 in coincidence with a geomagnetic disturbance. After a flight at an altitude of between 22km and 24km, the payload was recovered safely at noon that same day.

• Measurement of atmospheric conductivity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China Meteorol Atmos Phys 134, 40 (2022)
• News about the mission Website of the National Space Science Center (in Chinese)