Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 11/21/1975 at 6:13 cst
Launch site: Australian Balloon Launching Station, Alice Springs, Australia
Balloon launched by: ABLS Mildura
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon 10.600.000 ft3
Flight identification number: 642
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 11/23/1975 at 17:30 cst
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 60 h 7 m
Postal cover issued on launch day commemorating the flight
External references
- Gamma ray observations in the energy range 0.3 J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 15, 462 (1982)
- Information obtained from a postal cover issued in occasion of the flight
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