XG EXPERIMENT

Sitio de lanzamiento: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, EEUU  
Dia y hora de lanzamiento: 4/10/1980 23:02 utc
Lanzamiento y operación del globo a cargo de: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Tipo de globo/fabricante/volumen/composicion: Globo de Presión Cero Winzen 727.460 m3 (15.24 Microns - Stratofilm) - SF 404.85-060-NSCR-01
Nº de serie del globo: W26.59-2-01
Nº de vuelo: 1220P
Dia y hora de fin del vuelo (L para hora de aterrizaje, W ultimo contacto conocido, resto hora de separacion): 5/10/1980 13:18 utc
Duración del vuelo (F: tiempo a flotacion, resto tiempo total de vuelo en d:dias / h:horas / m:minutos): F 15 h
Sitio de aterrizaje o ultima posición conocida: 17 Millas al N de Meridian, Mississippi, EEUU
Peso carga útil: 1387 kgs

• Balloon program for hard-X-ray astronomy IL Nuovo Cimento C Novembre-Dicembre 1984, Volume 7, Issue 6, pp 648-655
• Hard X-ray emission from the recurrent transient A0535 + 26 during its 1980 high-intensity outburst Advances in Space Research vol. 3, no. 10-12, 1984, p. 47
• Hard X-ray observation of galactic X-ray sources Advances in Space Research - Volume 5, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 125-128
• Hard X-ray observation of the transient X-ray pulsar A0535+26 Max-Planck Inst. Phys. and Astrophys. Accreting Neutron Stars p 112-116
• National Scientific Balloon Facility Annual Report FY 1981 National Center for Atmospheric Research, April 1982
• The Pulsed Spectrum of the Transient Source A0535+26 in the Hard X-Ray Range Physica Scripta. Vol. T7, 11 1-1 12, 1984
• The X-ray pulsar A0535 + 26 - Pulse profile and its time variability in hard X-rays Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 vol. 298, Nov. 15, 1985, p. 585
• The X-ray pulsar A0535+26 in hard X-rays - Average spectrum, pulse-phase spectroscopy, and spectral time variability Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 vol. 331, Aug. 1, 1988, p. 313