Purpose of the flight and payload description
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 6/30/1997 at 14:52 utc
Launch site: Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Raven 4.0 - 113.000 m3 - SF3-4.001-.8/.8-NA
Balloon serial number: R4.001-1-07
Flight identification number: 435N
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 6/30/1997 at 17:22 utc
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 5 h 50 m
Landing site: 12 miles NNW of Nenana, Alaska, US
Campaign: POLARIS
Payload weight: 1980 lbs
External references
- Airborne Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer (ALIAS-II) for in situ Atmospheric Measurements of N2O, CH4, CO, HCI, and NO2 from Balloon or RPA Platforms Applied Optics Vol. 38, Issue 21, pp. 4609
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- Argus: A Lightweight TDL Instrument to Measure Stratospheric Tracers Proc. SPIE 3758, Application of Tunable Diode and Other Infrared Sources for Atmospheric Studies and Industrial Processing Monitoring II, 123
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- Dual-beam UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer Atmospheric Observations Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- Laminae in the tropical middle stratosphere: Origin and age estimation Geophysical Research Letters Vol. 25, Issue 23, pag. 4337
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- NASA Balloon Flights (1989-1998) in NASA Historical Data Book, Vol. VII: NASA Launch Systems, Space Transportation, Human Spaceflight, and Space Science, 1989-1998
Images of the mission
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