Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 4/5/1972
Launch site: Australian Balloon Launching Station, Alice Springs, Australia
Balloon launched by: ABLS Mildura
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Winzen Stratofilm 46.100.000 cuft - Natural Shape (0.5 mils) - 2 Caps (0.7 mils)
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 4/6/1972
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 26 h 55 m
Payload weight: 1834 lbs
Postal cover issued on launch day commemorating the flight
External references
- Balloon Flight Record Nº 43 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Summer 1972
- Flight Summary of balloons made of Stratofilm - 1971 to 1972, Technical report, Winzen Research International. Circa 1973 - Stratocat's private collection
- Progress in Scientific Balloon Technology in European Programmes on Sounding-Rocket and Balloon Research in the Auroral Zone, May 1976, p. 283
- Upper Limits to the High-Energy X-Ray Flux from 16 X-Ray Sources and 10 Pulsars Astrophysical Journal, vol. 186, p.L111
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