Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 7/26/1972 at 13:22 UTC
Launch site: Fort Churchill Airport, Manitoba, Canada
Balloon launched by: Raven Industries Inc.
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Winzen Stratofilm 11.640.000 cuft - Natural Shape (0.6 mils) - Cap (0.9 Mils.)
Flight identification number: Raven Nº 1332
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 7/27/1972
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 20 h 35 m
Campaign: SKYHOOK 72
Payload weight: 1319 lbs
External references
- Balloon Observations of Rapid Variations in Solar Particle Flux During July 1972 13th International Conference on Cosmic Rays, Vol.2, p.1422 (1973)
- Skyhook Churchill 1972 Interim Report, Raven Industries, 1973
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