Purpose of the flight and payload description
The balloons of the SAMBO-1976 campaign were equipped with X-ray and electric field detectors
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 12/7/1976 at 15:21 utc
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): ??/??/1976
Campaign: SAMBO-76
External references
- Ground based, balloon & rocket program details #0531 IMS Newsletter 76-12, Special Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Pag. 2
- Actualities #0531 IMS Newsletter 77-01, Special Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Pag. 3
- Dynamical processes and structure of auroral magnetosphere (SAMBO experiment) (in Russian) Ed. Kola Branch Acad.Sci. USSR, Apatity, January 1978
- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
- Trajectories of balloon launched in winter 1976 in Balloon research and cooperative programmes, Adv. Space Res. Vol.3,No.7,pp.103,1983
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