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Mars Environment Analogue Platform
by blobrana on Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:56 pm
MEAP is a test mission to try out new technology (the mass spectrometer P-BACE, Polar Balloon Atmospheric Composition Experiment), which has primarily been developed to conduct a number of measurements on Mars during forthcoming missions. The test project MEAP will be carried out in the Earth’s stratosphere, an environment that has many similarities to the conditions at the surface of Mars.
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Re: Mars Environment Analogue Platform
by blobrana on Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:20 pm
At 7:07 local time on Saturday (28 June) a large balloon-borne experiment called MEAP* took off from SSC:s launch facility Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden.
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Re: Mars Environment Analogue Platform
by blobrana on Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:21 pm
L plus 63 hours
Last known position and altitude was at 68.01 N, 48.73 W and at 36860 m.
http://www.irf.se/meap-pbace/meap-pbace.php
Last known position and altitude was at 68.01 N, 48.73 W and at 36860 m.
http://www.irf.se/meap-pbace/meap-pbace.php