Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 4/20/2005
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 SF 372 (12.7 micron + 25.4 micron) - 422,149 m3
Flight identification number: 465
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 4/20/2005
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 4 h
Landing site: Near Gulbarga, 250 km W of Hyderabad, India
Payload weight: 697 kgs
External references
- Balloon launch records Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- Cosmology and the Origins of Life Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 30001 - 30013
- Current Developments and Future Plans at NBF@Hyderabad and Prospects for Long Duration Balloon Flights Trans. JSASS Aerospace Tech. Japan Vol. 8, No. Ists27, Pag 55
- Janibacter hoylei sp. nov., Bacillus isronensis sp. nov. and Bacillus aryabhattai sp. nov., isolated from cryotubes used for collecting air from the upper atmosphere International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (12): 2977-2986
- Mechanical properties of ANTRIX balloon film and fabrication of single cap large volume balloons Advances in Space Research 42 (2008) 1691
- Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe personal website
- Search for Origin of Life: ISRO-TIFR Balloon based Experiment Space India Newsletter
Images of the mission
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