Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 1/23/1983
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 SV-016 - 11.620.000 cuft (0.5 Mils - Cap. 0.9 Mils - Stratofilm)
Flight identification number: H83-02
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 1/23/1983
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 13 h 30 m
Payload weight: 1599 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
- Detection of uranium from Cosmos-1402 in the stratosphere Science, New Series, Vol. 238, No. 4826 (Oct. 23, 1987), pp. 512-514
- Flight Summary of balloons made of Stratofilm - 1981 to 1983, Technical report, Winzen Research International. Circa 1984 - Stratocat's private collection
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