Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 5/24/1984
Launch site: Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Balloon launched by: Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Raven - SV-017B - 5.140.000 cuft
Flight identification number: H84-14
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 5/24/1984
Landing site: Balloon rupture at launch. Aborted flight
Payload weight: 3655 lbs
External references
- AFGL Balloon History since 7/7/1982 in Operational climatology for research ballooning in south central New Mexico (1988)
- Balloon atmospheric mosaic measurement (BAMM) IIA optical subsystem Optical Engineering 23(2), 131-136
- Balloon Atmospheric Mosaic Measurements (BAMM) IIA Phenomenology And Band Selection Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 304, pp. 70-83 (1982)
- Instrumentation Research and Support Services. Final rept. 13 Feb 81-30 Jun 85
- The BAMM IIA Radiometer Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 430, pp. 60-67 (1984)
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