Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 1/21/2001 at N
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 Antrix - 413.927 m3
Flight identification number: 449
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 1/21/2001
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 2 h
Payload weight: 697 kgs
Overall weight: 1315 kgs
External references
- A Balloon Experiment to Detect Microorganisms in the Outer Space Astrophysics and Space Science 285(2):555-562 ยท July 2003
- An Atmospheric Test of Cometary Panspermia Cosmic Ancestry website
- Bacillus aerius sp. nov., Bacillus aerophilus sp. nov., Bacillus stratosphericus sp. nov. and Bacillus altitudinis sp. nov., isolated from cryogenic tubes used for collecting air samples from high altitudes Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2006 Jul;56 (Pt 7):1465
- Bacterial morphologies in carbonaceous meteorites and comet dust SPIE conference 7819 Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XIII proceedings, R. B. Hoover, Ed
- Balloon up in the sky to study living organisms The Hindu newspaper, January 22, 2001 (via Archive.Org)
- Cosmology and the Origins of Life Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 30001 - 30013
- Detection of microorganisms at high altitudes Current Science, Vol. 85, No. 1 (10 July 2003), pp. 23
- Mechanical properties of ANTRIX balloon film and fabrication of single cap large volume balloons Advances in Space Research 42 (2008) 1691
- Microorganisms cultured from stratospheric air samples obtained at 41 km FEMS Microbiology Letters 218 (2003) 161
- New Evidence Of Living Bacteria From Space Space Daily website
- Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe personal website
- Scientific ballooning in India - Recent developments Advances in Space Research, Volume 37, Issue 11, p. 2015
- SEM Imaging of Stratospheric Particles of Non-terrestrial Origin Microscopy and Chemistry of Airborne Particles. Current Research
- Study of putative microfossils in space dust from the stratosphere 2010, International Journal of Astrobiology
- The detection of living cells in stratospheric samples SPIE, 2002, Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology IV
Images of the mission
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