TIFR owns a full fledged Balloon Facility at its launching centre at Hyderabad (central India). This centre is equipped with trained personnel for designing, fabricating , launching and tracking large volume balloons for scientific experiments.
The ground station for telemetry & telecommand transmission / reception is also well equipped with adequate hardware and software support personnel as well as equipment.
The scientific experiments which now a days regularly use this balloon facility are : Space Astronomy (Far Infrared ; X-ray ; Gamma ray), Atmospeheric sciences, etc.
Balloons are launched during two seasons during each year : Summer (January - April) and Winter (October- December). Inaddition to launching balloons , this centre also regularly monitors & analyses local weather at tropospheric and stratospheric altitudes which is very crutial for making decisions about balloon launches.