The PoGO mission, including the PoGOLite Pathfinder and PoGO+, aims to provide\npolarimetric measurements of the Crab system and Cygnus X-1 in the hard X-ray band. Measurements\nare conducted from a stabilized balloon-borne platform, launched on a 1 million cubic meter balloon\nfrom the Esrange Space Center in Sweden to an altitude of approximately 40 km. Several flights have\nbeen conducted, resulting in two independent measurements of the Crab polarization and one of\nCygnus X-1. Here, a review of the PoGO mission is presented, including a description of the payload\nand the flight campaigns, and a discussion of some of the scientific results obtained to date.
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