Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 3/20/1982 at 19:09
Launch site: Stamsund, Nordland, Norway
Balloon launched by: Andoya Rocket Range
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon model B15 15.000 m3
Flight identification number: B15-1N
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 3/20/1982 at 22:54
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): ~ 4 h
Landing site: N of Oulu, Finland
External references
- Auroral Zone X-Ray Pulsations Associated with VLF Pulsations: B15-3N balloon experiment Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research. Special issue. Vol. 31 Pag. 124
- Balloon measurement of electric fields near the Harang discontinuity Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research. Special issue - Vol.31(19840700) pp. 137-143
- Geomagnetic effect on electromagnetic field strength of power line radiation over northern Europe observed on the balloons B15-1N and B15-2N Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research. Special issue. Vol. 36 Pag. 181
- Pulsating Phenomena of Auroral-Zone X-Rays Associated with Quasi-Periodic VLF Emissions and Pc 3 Magnetic Pulsations J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 37, 927-943, 1985
- Report of Japan-Norway balloon campaign at Andoya and Stamsund, 1982 (in Japanese) Antarctic record - Vol.79(19830900) pp. 145-166
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