INDIA BALLOON PROGRAM

Abstract

Efforts were concerned with preparation, launch, tracking, monitor, cutdown and recovery of 22 balloon flights from a launching site at Hyderabad, India. The results of the flights include time versus altitude and temperature versus altitude curves for each flight along with calculations of air volume sampled. Twenty-four flights were completed. The payloads included the following: Nuclei Counter (4 flights), Small Impactor (4 flights), Sub-Micron Aerosol Collector (9 flights), Large Volume Impactor (4 flights), Indian Heavy Load Nuclear Emulsions (2 flights) and Indian High Altitude Nuclear Package (1 flight). The Sub-Micron Aerosol Collector (SMAC) along with the Indian Heavy Load Nuclear Emulsion were reflown on spare balloons because of earlier flight malfunctions to account for the total of 24 flights rather than the 22 planned. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 1961
Accession Number
AD0265161

Entities

People

  • D.a. Dietsche
  • D.v. Crowe

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accumulators
  • Altitude
  • Emulsions
  • High Altitude
  • Launching
  • Launching Sites
  • Malfunctions
  • Recovery

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
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