LASE (Large Area Scintillation counter Experiment)

Telescopio de observación de Rayos X duros a bordo de un globo. Observacion de fuentes de emision de rayos X extragalacticas.

Sitio de lanzamiento: TIFR National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad, India  
Dia y hora de lanzamiento: 22/11/1998 05:31 IST
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 - 203.886 m3
Nº de vuelo: 440
Dia y hora de fin del vuelo (L para hora de aterrizaje, W ultimo contacto conocido, resto hora de separacion): 22/11/1998 ~12:30 IST
Duración del vuelo (F: tiempo a flotacion, resto tiempo total de vuelo en d:dias / h:horas / m:minutos): 7 h
Peso carga útil: 624 Kgs

• Balloon Flight Report 1969 -2003 TIFR website (via Archive.Org)
• High energy X-ray observations of NGC 5506 Advances in Space Research, Volume 38, Issue 7, p. 1387
• Mechanical properties of ANTRIX balloon film and fabrication of single cap large volume balloons Advances in Space Research 42 (2008) 1691
• Observation of hard X-ray emission from extragalactic sources 3C 273 and NGC 5506 in 20-200 keV band Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, Vol. 29, p. 429-433
• Pulse profiles of Binary X-Ray pulsars in 20-200 keV band Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, Vol. 29, p. 355-360
• Search for pulsations in the low mass X-ray binary Sco X-1 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Volume 4, p.183 (2005)
• Spectral measurements of galactic and extragalactic sources in the hard X-ray region of 20-200 keV using balloon borne telescope Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 282, Issue 1, p. 149
• Spectral variability in hard X-rays and evidence for 13.5 years period in bright quasar 3C273 Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, vol. 23, p. 243