Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 4/20/1983
Launch site: Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico, US
Balloon launched by: Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Raven - SV-020 - 11.620.000 cuft
Flight identification number: H83-08
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 4/20/1983
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 5 h 45 m
Landing site: 34 miles NNE of Texico, Texas, US
Payload weight: 1383 lb
External references
- AFGL Balloon History since 7/7/1982 in Operational climatology for research ballooning in south central New Mexico (1988)
- Instrumental Effects on a Proposed Mg 2 Index of Solar Activity Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 6, No. 5, 531 (1988)
- Solar irradiance between 2000 and 3100 Angstroms with spectral band pass of 1.0 Angstroms Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 94, Issue D5, p. 6435
- Solar irradiance variation near 2075 Å J. Geophys. Res., 89( D6), 9677
- Solar ultraviolet variation between 1977 and 1983 Journal of Geophysical Research, 89 (D5), 7322
- Stratospheric Determination of Effective Photodissociation Cross Sections for Molecular Oxygen: 191-204 nm Final rept. 1 Oct 1982-30 Sep 1983
- Stratospheric determination of O2 cross sections and photodissociation rate coefficients: 191-215 nm Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 91, Issue D12, p. 14509
- Stratospheric determination of O2 cross sections and photodissociation rate coefficients: 191215 nm J. Geophys. Res., 91(D13), 14509
- Summary of Balloon Flights launched from H.A.F.B. NM (1962 thru 1987) U.S. Gov. National Archives
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