The MEAP (Mars Environment Analogue Platform) mission was to fly a stratospheric balloon on a semicircular trajectory around the North Pole in summer 2008.
The balloon platform carried the high resolution neutral gas mass spectrometer P-BACE (Polar Balloon Atmospheric Composition Experiment). The duration of the flight was around one week, the altitude is between 35-40 km.
Starting at Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, the flight trajectory went over the Atlantic to Canada, where MEAP/P-BACE landed on a parachute.
Our AYRLITE 2016 was selected, due to weight performance, as a support for the Solar cells and energy absorber during the landing.
