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Launch Sites
Luis Eduardo Pacheco of Stratocat.com has cataloged data on balloon launching
bases and sites around the world since the late 1940’s. His list provides detailed
information and launch logs for around 80 sites, which represents only a portion
of the almost 400 different sites he has identified, many being no longer active.
This chapter will focus on sites primarily used by science missions of the NASA
Balloon Program, but commercial and international sites will also be discussed.
The following sites predominantly used by NASA are discussed below:
• Palestine, Texas.
• Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
• Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii.
• Alice Springs, Australia.
Fig. 6.1 World map of NASA launch sites. Photo courtesy of NASA/Zell
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. von Ehrenfried, Stratospheric Balloons, Springer Praxis Books,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68130-2_6
6
Launch Sites
Luis Eduardo Pacheco of Stratocat.com has cataloged data on balloon launching
bases and sites around the world since the late 1940’s. His list provides detailed
information and launch logs for around 80 sites, which represents only a portion
of the almost 400 different sites he has identified, many being no longer active.
This chapter will focus on sites primarily used by science missions of the NASA
Balloon Program, but commercial and international sites will also be discussed.
The following sites predominantly used by NASA are discussed below:
• Palestine, Texas.
• Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
• Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii.
• Alice Springs, Australia.
Fig. 6.1 World map of NASA launch sites. Photo courtesy of NASA/Zell