Purpose of the flight and payload description
A balloon-borne remote sensing instrument, which measures the concentration of various key species involved in ozone depletion. It uses a Fourier transform spectrometer with two very sensitive detectors to simultaneously detect the molecules with very high sensitivity. Ninth flight - UARS instrument validation data campaign.
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 5/15/1994 at 12:37 utc
Launch site: Scientific Flight Balloon Facility, Fort Sumner, (NM), US
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon N29EX-8/8/8T-28.40
Balloon serial number: R28.40-2X-104
Flight identification number: 378N
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 5/5/1994 at 12:37 utc
Landing site: 35 miles W of Pueblo, Colorado, US
External references
- Characterisation of instrumental line shape distortions due to path di?erence dependent phase errors in a Fourier transform spectrometer Infrared Physics & Technology 41 (2000) 287-292
- Diurnal variability and night detection of stratospheric hydroxyl radical from far infrared emission measurements Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 63 (2001) 15091518
- Flight qualification of a diode laser for path difference determination of a high-resolution Fourier transform spectrometer APPLIED OPTICS - Vol. 39, No. 6 - 20 February 2000
- IBEX website Nello Carrara Institute of Applied Physics
- NASA Balloon Flights (19891998) in NASA Historical Data Book, Vol. VII: NASA Launch Systems, Space Transportation, Human Spaceflight, and Space Science, 1989-1998
Images of the mission
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