Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 8/10/1980
Launch site: Base di Lancio Luigi Broglio, Trapani, Sicily, Italy
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Winzen 514.654 m3 (15.24 microns Stratofilm)
Flight identification number: 168N
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/11/1980
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): F 19 h
Landing site: In Spain
Payload weight: 1658 kgs
Transatlantic flight aborted
External references
- Hard X-ray astronomy at IAS Società Astronomica Italiana, Memorie, vol. 52, Mar. 1981, p. 117
- Hard X-rays emission /15-150 keV/ from the region of 4UO515+38 Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 106, no. 1, Feb. 1982, p. 174, 175
- National Scientific Balloon Facility Annual Report FY 1980 National Center for Atmospheric Research, April 1981
- The POKER experiment: A 10,800 cm2 MWPC's array payload for hard X-Ray Astronomy Advances in Space Research, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 87
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