MANTRA 2000 Current Schedule

• May 1, 2000: Project Start (follow-on from MANTRA 1998)
• June 5, 2000: Requirements Review and FDR for Pointing System (at U of Toronto)
• July 27, 2000: Flight Readiness Review (at U of Toronto)
• August 1, 2000: Gondola shipped to SIL
• August 12-15, 2000: Instruments shipped to Vanscoy, Saskatchewan
• August 16, 2000: Science team arrived in Vanscoy
• August 16-29, 2000: Payload integration and flight preparation
• 2:45 AM August 29, 2000: Balloon successfully launched from Vanscoy
• 4:38 PM August 29, 2000: Balloon landed about 280 km northeast of Vanscoy
• August 30, 2000: Science team left Vanscoy
• December 1, 2000: Fourth MANTRA Data Workshop

Maintained by: Kimberly Strong
Last updated: 9 September 2000