Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 11/8/1978
Launch site: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, US
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Winzen 580.850 m3 (12.70 microns - Stratofilm)
Flight identification number: 1109P
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): ??/??/1978
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): F 10 h 30 m
Payload weight: 1092 kgs.
External references
- National Scientific Balloon Facility Annual Report FY 1979 National Center for Atmospheric Research, September 1980
- Stratospheric odd nitrogen: Nitric oxide measurements at 32°N in autumn J. Geophys. Res., 86(C4), 3167-3172
- Stratospheric profiles of HCl and CH4 at 32 deg N obtained on project Stratoprobe from 1978 to 1985 Advances in Space Research, vol. 7, no. 9, 1987, p. 127-131
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