Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 8/5/1982
Launch site: Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico, US
Balloon launched by: Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Winzen LVT-007 - 2.010.000 cuft (1.0 mils - Stratofilm)
Flight identification number: H82-19
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/5/1982
Payload weight: 1610 lbs
External references
- AFGL Balloon History since 7/7/1982 in Operational climatology for research ballooning in south central New Mexico (1988)
- Balloon and aircraft measurements of stratospheric sulfate mixing ratio following the El Chichon eruption Geophysical Research Letters, 10: 10371040
- Project Ashcan in EML-458 High Altitude Sampling Program - Radioactivity in the Stratosphere: Final Report
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