XMPC (Xenon filled Multi-anode Proportional Counter telescope)

Sitio de lanzamiento: TIFR National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad, India  
Dia y hora de lanzamiento: 5/4/1992 19:01 utc
Lanzamiento y operación del globo a cargo de: National Balloon Facility, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Tipo de globo/fabricante/volumen/composicion: Globo de Presión Cero Antrix - 239.784 m3
Nº de vuelo: 418
Dia y hora de fin del vuelo (L para hora de aterrizaje, W ultimo contacto conocido, resto hora de separacion): 6/4/1992 ??
Peso carga útil: 703 Kgs
Peso Total: 1275 kgs

• A Transition Disk Model Fit for the Broadband X-Ray Spectrum of Cygnus X-1 The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 487, Issue 1, pp. 388
• Background reduction in a balloon-borne hard x-ray telescope Advances in Space Research, Volume 21, Issue 7, p. 1025
• Balloon Flight Report 1969 -2003 TIFR website (via Archive.Org)
• Balloon-borne observations using a large area xenon detector telescope above 20 keV Advances in Space Research, vol. 14, no. 2, p. (2)109
• Broad band X-ray spectrum of Cygnus X-1 Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.331, p.251 (1998)
• Broad band X-ray spectrum of Cygnus X-1 Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India 331(1) - November 1997
• Hard X-ray observation of the pulsar GX 1+4 Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, Vol. 23, No. 4, p. 478
• Hard X-ray pulse profile of GX1+4 Advances in Space Research, Volume 22, Issue 7, p. 1003
• Hard X-ray spectra of some X-ray binaries from balloon-borne observations Astronomical Society of India, Bulletin, vol. 21, no. 3-4, p. 555
• Low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations in the hard X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1 Advances in Space Research, vol. 25, no. 3-4, 2000, p. 429
• Mechanical properties of ANTRIX balloon film and fabrication of single cap large volume balloons Advances in Space Research 42 (2008) 1691
• Timing study of some x-ray binaries Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, vol. 27, p.109