SKYHOOK BALLOON RESEARCH

Abstract

Flight profiles, flight trajectories, launch and flight descriptions and post flight analyses of problems or failures are provided for the balloon launches. The objective of the tethered launch was to test the Sea-Space dynamic launch system and the payload pickup capability of a dummy MER P balloon. A full scale, identical weight, dummy balloon was used.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 1964
Accession Number
AD0605301

Entities

People

  • Dale W. Cox

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Attachment
  • California
  • Contracts
  • Flight
  • Free Flight
  • Hard Copy
  • Helicopters
  • Launchers
  • Low Angles
  • Radiosondes
  • Trajectories
  • Transmitters
  • Wind
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers