Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 7/28/1963 at 2:24 utc
Launch site: Fort Churchill Airport, Manitoba, Canada
Balloon launched by: Raven Industries Inc.
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon 6.000.000 cuft (0.5 mil.)
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 7/28/1963
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 10 h 30 m
Campaign: SKYHOOK CHURCHILL 1963
Payload weight: 60 kg
External references
- A nuclear emulsion plate "Shuffler" Il Nuovo Cimento, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 212
- Heavy particles in primary cosmic radiation Final scientific rept. 1 Jul 1966-30 Apr 1969,Kund Univ., Sweden
- Singly and Doubly Charged Particles in the Primary Cosmic Radiation Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 73, Issue 13, pp. 4261
- The Singly and Doubly Charged Particles in the Primary Cosmic Radiation Technical Report CR-112, January 1968
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