Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 7/26/1972 at 14:03 utc
Launch site: Roswell Industrial Air Center, New Mexico, US
Balloon launched by: Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Tow 356.000 cuft (0.5 Mil) Main: 34.600.000 (0.33 Mil.)
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 7/26/1972
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 3 h
Payload weight: 5422 kgs
External references
- Balloon Flight Record Nº 44 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Summer 1972
- Balloon launched decelerator test program: Post-flight test report, BLDT vehicle AV-2, Viking 1975 project Martin Marietta Corp.; Denver, CO, United States (1973)
- Balloon launched decelerator test program: Post-test test report NASA Technical Report (1972)
- Balloon launched Viking decelerator test program Martin Marietta Corp.; Denver, CO, United States (1973)
- Flight tests of Viking parachute system in three Mach number regimes. 1: Vehicle description, test operations, and performance NASA Technical Report (1974)
- Flight tests of Viking parachute system in three Mach number regimes. 2: Parachute test results NASA Technical Report (1974)
- Postflight simulation of parachute deployment dynamics of Viking qualification flight tests NASA Technical Note Nº D-7415 (1973)
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