LIP (LIMS Instrument Package)

Developed by NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Balloon launched on 11/8/1978, from Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, US

Purpose of the flight and payload description

The NASA Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) Instrument Package (LIP) balloon experiment was a multi-instrumental balloon borne program carried out to obtain correlative temperature, ozone, water vapor, and nitric acid data at altitudes between 10 and 36 kilometers. These data were obtained in order to assess the performance of the LIMS sensor flown on the Nimbus 7 Satellite.

The LIP gondola transported the following instruments: a modified electrochemical concentration cell ozonesonde from NASA Wallops Flight Center, an ultraviolet absorption photometer for ozone developed by NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, a water vapor infrared radiometric sonde provided by the British National Physical Laboratory, a chemical absorption filter instrument for nitric acid vapor developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and an infrared radiometer for nitric acid vapor, provided by the Institute D'Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique.

Details of the balloon flight

Balloon launched on: 11/8/1978 at  
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 146.981 m3 (12.70 microns - Stratofilm)
 Flight identification number: 1108P
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 11/8/1978
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): F 3 h 25 m
 Payload weight: 749 kgs.

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