You see the auxiliary balloon already up, and the main balloon (that will become huge in the stratosphere) rising in the background and taking over. From ...

The gondola landed on 13-Aug around 5 am in a wooded area, and it was found and brought by helicopter to Esrange where our team was already waiting. We ...

Update 1:00: And we did it, and it flew! The last few hours were intense, no time for blog. I will sleep a bit and try to be there at ~ 6 am when the ...

Today’s post is about one of my favorite pieces of equipment: the cryo-sampler. This is the device that will collect large stratospheric air samples from ...

We had a “NO launch” decision for today:  flight conditions were not very good (possibly wet) and  the after-flight recovery of the payload ...

It is a good moment to introduce the TWIN team. We are 15 scientists, from 6 institutions, from 3 countries. We have different expertise and will combine ...

In the last days the equipment has been installed and mounted in the TWIN gondola. We have in the flight package: several Aircores a cryosampler for large ...

Yesterday we managed to get all our luggage, including the missing equipment! That was a big victory. Other than that, it was a really intense and long day ...

We are in the equipment installation phase: the gondola and all the equipment have to be set up and mounted together. This is quite a big work, and has to ...

We (Elena, Sophie, Steven and Alessandro) are traveling to Kiruna, Sweden. More precisely, to the Esrange Space Center. This is, for us, the start of the ...