Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 11/22/1979 at 9:08 utc
Launch site: Regional Airport do Cariri, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Raven 113.300 m3 (15.00 microns)
Flight identification number: 162N
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 11/22/1979
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): F 3 h 15 m
Landing site: 30 km from Juazeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
Payload weight: 249 kgs.
External references
- Direção e intensidade dos ventos em camadas de 20 à 50 km de altitude na região equatorial e sua aplicação em vôos de balões estratosféricos Internal report - INPE-1825/RPE 191 - (1980)
- National Scientific Balloon Facility Annual Report FY 1980 National Center for Atmospheric Research, April 1981
- Operação conjunta INPE / NCAR estuda a poluição do ar e mede Radiação Gama Revista Espacial Año IX Nº 36 - Mayo 1980
- Spectral Observations of Atmospheric Gamma-Ray Background Revista Brasileira de Física, Vol. 12, NP 3, 1982
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