Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 8/19/1976
Launch site: Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Balloon launched by: SED Systems Ltd. (Saskatoon)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon 300.000 m3
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 8/19/1976
Upon launch, the balloon suffered a large tear near the bottom that allowed ingestion of a considerable quantity of near-surface air likely rich in gases from support and launch vehicle exhausts. Consequently expulsion of this trapped air as the balloon ascended may have perturbed the ascent data
External references
- A study of the far-infrared emission spectrum of the stratosphere Ph.D Thesis by Kendall, David John Winston, University of Calgary, 1979
- Balloon-borne far-infrared Michelson interferometer for atmospheric emission studies Applied Optics Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 346-353 (1979)
- Detection of minor constitutents of the stratosphere by far infrared emission spectroscopy International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, July 1981, Volume 2, Issue 4, pp 783-808
- Mid-latitude summertime measurements of stratospheric NO2 Canadian Journal of Physics, 1982, 60(2): 196-200
- Stratospheric Odd Nitrogen: NO Measurements at 51°N in Summer J. Geophys. Res., 86, 3162-3166 (1981)
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