Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 9/20/1982 at 7:02 jst
Launch site: Sanriku Balloon Center, Iwate, Japan
Balloon launched by: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon model B5 5.000 m3
Flight identification number: B5-107
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 9/20/1982
External references
- Adapted Gill-Type Propellor Anemometer for Balloon-Borne Use [in Japanese] Report of the Institute of Space Research. Special Feature 8, 69-85, 1983-08
- Balloon observation of stratospheric gravity wave and turbulence Handbook for MAP, At ICSU-SCOSTEP, Volume: 32
- Development of Balloon-Borne Anemometers for Observations of Gravity Wave and Turbulence in Stratosphere
- Meso and Micro-scale Structures of Stratospheric Winds: A Quick Look of Balloon Observation Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 62(1):177-182 · February 1984
- Multiple "Gust Layers" Observed in the Middle Stratosphere
- Multiple "Gust Layers" Observed in the Middle Stratosphere Dynamics of the Middle Atmosphere, 117-140, 1984
- Observation of internal gravity waves by quasi-constant level balloon January 1985
- Reel-up and -down system for balloon-borne instruments
- Scientific observations with balloons Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Annual Handbook 1982 (In Japanese)
- Stratospheric Balloon-Borne "Adapted Gill-Type" Propeller Anemometer Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 3(1) · December 1985
- The Power Spectrum of Internal Gravity Waves: Stratospheric Balloon Observations and Interpretations WRI Map Research Note 6, March 1985
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