Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 3/31/1979 at 04:32
Launch site: National Institute of Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Balloon launched by: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon 73.000 m3
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 3/31/1979 at ~ 11:30
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 7 h
Landing site: In Cosmópolis - Sao Paulo
Payload weight: 180 kgs
External references
- A infraestrutura do INPE para lancar balao cientifico Elisete Rinke dos Santos, editorial Transtec, 1993
- Observações de fontes de raios gama extraterrestres com um telescópio de alta resolução angular INPE internal report
- Spectral Observations of Atmospheric Gamma-Ray Background Revista Brasileira de Física, Vol. 12, NP 3, 1982
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