BALLOON FLIGHT RECORD STATUS REPORT AS OF 31 DECEMBER 1962

• Main Author: Winckler, John R.
• Other Authors: MINNESOTA UNIV MINNEAPOLIS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1963
• Subjects: Atmospheric Physics; *AERONOMY; *METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; MEASUREMENT; X RAYS; ELECTRONS; COSMIC RAYS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; FLIGHT; INSTRUMENTATION; ELECTRON PRECIPITATION; Fort Churchill; Indian; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Island; Churchill
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0403928; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0403928

Balloon flights were launched from Minneapolis, Fort Churchill, Manitoba, and Kerguelen Island in the South Indian Ocean. The flights used either standard monitoring apparatus or the scintillation counters to obtain more specific data about x-rays resulting from electron precipitation. Besides the launchings made simultaneously at Kerguelen and Minneapolis in September 1962, coordinated launchings were made at Minneapolis and Fort Churchill. These latter experiments were to measure x-rays resulting from electron precipitation during magnetic storms at high latitudes. The tabulation gives the flight number, launch time, launch location, duration, and type of instrument used on each of the flights. The flight duration is measured from launch time. The floating pressure altitude of the current balloon system is 6 mb. In general, the flights attained this altitude about two hours after the stated launch time. The balloons do not always float at a constant altitude, however, so that the detailed time-pressure curve for each flight is necessary for final analysis.