Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 4/29/1999
Launch site: TIFR National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad, India
Balloon launched by: National Balloon Facility, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon 18 SF-372,20SF-372 - Cap. IMP
Flight identification number: 442
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 4/29/1999
Payload weight: 593 Kgs
External references
- A Balloon Experiment to Detect Microorganisms in the Outer Space Astrophysics and Space Science 285(2):555-562 · July 2003
- An Atmospheric Test of Cometary Panspermia Cosmic Ancestry website
- Balloon Flight Report 1969 -2003 TIFR website (via Archive.Org)
- ISRO/ANTRIX Conducts Semi-Commercial Cryogenic Sampler Flight for Max Planck Institute, Germany ISRO press release
- Life came from space? Balloon may have answers The Hindu - Saturday, December 02, 2000
- Mechanical properties of ANTRIX balloon film and fabrication of single cap large volume balloons Advances in Space Research 42 (2008) 1691
- The isotopic composition of methane in the stratosphere: high-altitude balloon sample measurements Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 1328713304, 2011
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