Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 6/15/1984 at 6:15 utc
Launch site: Aérodrome de Gap-Tallard, Haute Alpes, France
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 6/15/1984
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 9 h
External references
- Diffuse and atmospheric photon fluxes measured with a time of flight telescope Advances in Space Research - Volume 6, Issue 4, 1986, Pag. 187
- Measurement of atmospheric and diffuse radiation using a time-of-flight telescope J. Geophys. Res., 97(A2), 1541
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