Online trajectory	Predicted trajectory	Ephemerids	Anticipated sky coverage
D day - morning	On the launchpad	The launch	After the launch

11:10 AM The gondola is ready for take-off, correctly positionned on the launchpad.
                The pivot is connected to the flight chain. Last prepation of the balloon.

11:40 AM Ballon filling started: so far, so good ...

12:31 AM Archeops launch has been sucessful.
                Experiment is working fine and expecting ceiling time within 3 hours.

02:19 PM Valve gate is open, photons are collected !

03:30 PM 0.1K stage at 97 mK

06:30 PM Due to a balloon problem, the flight must be interrupted. The recovery will be done tomorrow by helicopter. The instrument worked perfectly, with very clean signal at 34.5 km.

Daily reports from Kiruna with pictures  (December 2001  /  January 2002)

Computed trajectories for Archeops (December 2001 /  January 2002)

100 beautiful pictures of the first flight to download (32 Mo... full resolution) or to visit (low resolution)
12 pictures of Kiruna (including marvelous skies ...) to download (5.6 Mo... full resolution) or to visit (low resolution)