POLAR-BESS (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer - POLAR VERSION)

Balloon launched on: 12/23/2007
Launch site: Williams Field, McMurdo Station, Antarctica  
Balloon launched by: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Raven - 39.000.000 cuft - (0.8 Mil)
Flight identification number: 578N
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 1/22/2008 at 8:18
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 30 d 15 h 37 m
Landing site: 225 nautic miles SE of the Patriot Hills Station.

• BESS web site HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
• Balloons Away Antarctic Sun
• BESS-Polar balloon-borne superconducting spectrometer successfully launched for Antarctic flight KEK press release
• Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Proton and Helium Spectra from the BESS-Polar Long-duration Balloon Flights over Antarctica Astrophysical Journal, Volume 822, Issue 2, p 65
• New result of Antideuteron search in BESS-Polar II  
• Old BESS website University of Maryland
• Scientific Balloons Achieve Antarctic Flight Record National Science Foundation press release
• The results from BESS-Polar experiment To appear in: Advances in Space Research
• The second Antarctic Flight of BESS-Polar Experiment: Flight Summary and Detector Performance PROCEEDINGS OF THE 31st ICRC, LODZ 2009
• The upper limit on antideuteron flux with BESS-Polar II 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)