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Stratospheric balloons launched on 1949

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Launch siteDateScientific ExperimentPayload landing site
Holloman AFB (NM)4/29FFTV (Free Fall Test Vehicle)No Data   
USS Palau11/12Photographic emulsions to study cosmic raysPayload partially damaged by the rescue helicopter wich dragg it from the sea surface   
USS Palau11/12Measurements of neutrons intensities using an array of proportional counters--- No data ---   
USS Palau11/13COSMIC RAYS STUDIESPayload rescued from the sea and flown again in flight Nº 9   
USS Palau11/13Photographic emulsions to study cosmic raysPayload and balloon lost   
USS Palau11/14COSMIC RAYS OBSERVATION--- No data ---   
USS Palau11/15COSMIC RAYS OBSERVATION--- No data ---   
USS Palau11/16Photographic emulsions to study cosmic rays--- No data ---   
USS Palau11/16PHOTO RECORDER-COUNTER TELESCOPEPayload rescued from the sea and flown again in flight Nº 10 of the same campaign   
USS Palau11/17COSMIC RAYS STUDIES--- No data ---   
USS Palau11/17PHOTO RECORDER-COUNTER TELESCOPE--- No data ---   
USS Palau11/18COSMIC RAYS STUDIES--- No data ---   
USS Palau11/18COSMIC RAYS STUDIES--- No data ---   
  1948 1950

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