Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 5/17/1975
Launch site: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, US
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Winzen - 162.616 m3 (25.40 microns)
Flight identification number: 889P
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 5/17/1975
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): F 9 h
Payload weight: 2466 kgs
Postal cover issued on launch day commemorating the flight
External references
- A comparison of artificial solar granules with real solar granules Solar Physics, vol. 97, p. 213
- Balloon-borne imagery of the solar granulation. II - The lifetime of solar granulation Astron. Astrophys. 62, 311
- National Scientific Balloon Facility Annual Report FY 1975 National Center for Atmospheric Research, November 1975
- Spectrostratoscope: A Balloon-Borne Solar Observatory Applied Optics Vol. 3, Issue 12, pp. 1359-1361 (1964)
Images of the mission
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