MANTRA - Press Releases and Media Stories
Press Releases
- Scientific Balloon Landed Today (September 2, 1998)
- Successful Launch of Giant Canadian Research Balloon (August 24, 1998)
- Backgrounder: MANTRA (August 24, 1998)
- Giant Balloon Launch Delayed (August 14, 1998)
- Canadian Space Researchers Send Giant Balloons to Edge of Space (August 13, 1998)
- Backgrounder: Scientific Balloons (August 13, 1998)
- Backgrounder: Understanding the Ozone Layer (August 13, 1998)
- Backgrounder: Science Review Highlights Severe Ozone Loss (August 13, 1998)
- Backgrounder: CSA and Space Science (August 13, 1998)
- Giant Research Balloons to Study Ozone Layer and Big Bang Theory (August 11, 1998)
Selected Media Stories
- Canadian Geographic - The Balloon That Wouldn't Land (July/August 1999)
- Interactions (U of T Physics) - The 1998 MANTRA Balloon Campaign (Spring 1999)
- U of T Bulletin - MANTRA Balloon Returns (October 13, 1998)
- U of T Bulletin - Balloon Takes Unexpected Trip North (September 14, 1998)
- U of T Bulletin - Scientists Launch Balloon to Study Ozone Layer (August 17, 1998)
- BBC - Lost Balloon Lands in Finland (September 3, 1998)
- BBC - Rogue Balloon Lost at Sea (21:59 GMT, August 31, 1998)
- BBC - Rogue Balloon - Now Over Russia (11:57 GMT, August 31, 1998)
- BBC - Rogue Balloon - Now Heading for Norway (07:52 GMT, August 31, 1998)
- BBC - Rogue Balloon Up and Away (07:30 GMT, August 30, 1998)
- BBC - US Aces Gun for Rogue Balloon (06:06 GMT, August 30, 1998)
- BBC - Rogue Balloon Keeps Going (August 29, 1998)
- BBC - Canadian Balloon Disrupts TransAtlantic Air Traffic (August 28, 1998)
- CNN/Reuters - Runaway Balloon Drifts into Russia from Norway (August 31, 1998)
- Daily Telegraph - Rogue Weather Balloon Defies Radar and Jets (August 31, 1998)
- Daily Telegraph - Giant Weather Balloon Survives Gunfire to Leave a Trail of Chaos (August 30, 1998)
- Helsingin Sanomat - front page photo (September 3, 1998)
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Last updated: 3 December 2008
