Status

COBRAT: Strategy - Status

Launch from Kourou : During weak stratospheric winds (to stay close to the launching site)


 * “Safe” tropical region with the possibility to use CNES facility
 * Good probability of TLE/TGF observations

Several gondolas:


 * Long duration flights ==&gt; Risk of loosing the payload (recovery in the sea ?)
 * Different scientific objectives (TLE, TGF, chemistry)

Main issues to be solved:


 * Telemetry limitation
 * Needs of technical flights to test the long duration balloons and instruments

Project status:


 * Project submitted to CNES in 2009

GOAL : 1 campaign per 18 month during the lifetime of TARANIS and ASIM
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