Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 8/28/1976
Launch site: Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Balloon launched by: SED Systems Ltd. (Saskatoon)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/28/1976
External references
- A study of the far-infrared emission spectrum of the stratosphere Ph.D Thesis by Kendall, David John Winston, University of Calgary, 1979
- Balloon-borne far-infrared Michelson interferometer for atmospheric emission studies Applied Optics Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 346-353 (1979)
- Detection of minor constitutents of the stratosphere by far infrared emission spectroscopy International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, July 1981, Volume 2, Issue 4, pp 783-808
- Mid-latitude summertime measurements of stratospheric NO2 Canadian Journal of Physics, 1982, 60(2): 196-200
- Simulation of nitrogen constituent measurements from the August 28, 1976, Stratoprobe III flight J. Geophys. Res., 86(C12), 1206612070
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