Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 6/12/1986 at 13:52 utc
Launch site: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, US
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon N29-8/8/8T-28.40
Balloon serial number: R28.40-2-102
Flight identification number: 1423PT
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 6/12/1986 at 22:40 utc
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 9 h 30 m
Landing site: 15 miles E of Seminole, Texas, US
External references
- Imaging spectrometer for high resolution measurements of stratospheric trace constituents in the ultraviolet Applied Optics Vol. 27, Issue 3, pp. 619-626 (1988)
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- Measurement Of The Instrumental Polarization Of A High Resolution Ultraviolet Spectrometer Proc. SPIE 1166, Polarization Considerations for Optical Systems II, (25 January 1990)
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- Measurements of OH(X2pi) in the stratosphere by high resolution UV spectroscopy Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 14, Sept. 1987, p. 937
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- New Raven scientific balloon material meets increased performance requirements 7th Conference on Sounding Rockets, Balloons and Related Space Systems, Sounding Rocket Technology Conference, 1986
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- Ultraviolet polarimeter for characterization of an imaging spectrometer Proc. SPIE 1317, Polarimetry: Radar, Infrared, Visible, Ultraviolet, and X-Ray, (1 October 1990)
Images of the mission
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