Campagna Artica 2014 Olimpo, (profili di volo, zavorra e traiettorie)

ASI has devoted the Arctic campaign 2014 of the stratospheric balloons to the Olimpo mission for studying cosmic microwave background and early galaxies, (PI Silvia Masi, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"). The launch has to take place from the ASI base 'Nobile / Amundsen' in Longyearbyen (Svalbard) and the circumnavigation of the North Pole, along the launch meridian, will last about 15 days. ISTI, ALTEC and Politecnico di Torino, (Dipartimento ingegneria Aerospaziale), support the flight dynamic of the mission. This document shows the results of the pre-launch operational activities, requiring the analysis of the ascent phase and of the floating phase, the definition of the on-board ballast and the flight predictions.