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Charles B. Moore co-pilot of the StratoLab IV mission gazing at the sky before being launched onboard the sealed capsule to 79.000 ft.
In the background can be seen the Schmidt telescope brought by the John Hopkins University which was mounted on the top side of the gondola.
During the flight performed from the Stratobowl on November 28 1959, were obtained the first observations of water vapor on the atmosphere of Venus.
#StratoLab #BalloonImageOfTheDay #Balloon #Stratobowl #ONR #Skyhook
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The KESTREL mission balloon seen ascending majestically above Ramona County Airport (CA) on 11/13/86.
KESTREL was a program to develop technology capable of addressing issues associated with precise tracking of ballistic missiles. It was carried out by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with support from the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory.
Image by Jan Kocian.
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#Balloon #Kestrel #Ramona
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Preparations for the launch of a #stratospheric #balloon, moments before the dawn near #Bristol, England in the early 1950s.
The #hydrogen filling tube is visible at the bottom, together with the nuclear emulsion stack in a bamboo cage. The #emulsions were sent aloft to register traces of rare particles created by collisions of cosmic rays with particles in the high atmosphere.
All eyes look at rubber balloons launched to gauge wind speed
(Source: Bristol University)
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Launch of a cosmic ray experiment on July 21, 1969 from the #soccer field of the #River Plate stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The stadium stands served as a virtual #windbreak to allow the balloon to be safely inflated & launched. Several balloon missions were performed there in 1969/70 by the Centro Nacional de Radiación Cósmica (CNRC) and the institution that succeeded it the Instituto de #Astronomia y #Fisica del Espacio (IAFE)
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Project #Farside was an attempt to reach very high altitudes using a balloon in the stratosphere as launch platform. The #vector was composed of four #Recruit rockets as stage one, one Recruit as stage 2, a cluster of 4 Arrow-2 as stage 3, and finally one #Arrow-2 as stage 4.
The #balloon carried the #rocket in a suspended vertical aluminum structure below it. At an altitude of 30 km, the rocket was fired straight through the balloon piercing it as it ascended.
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This is the "Vacuum Monster" a balloon-borne instrument to collect #interplanetary dust particles in the #stratosphere
It was developed in the 70s by Dr. Donald #Brownlee at Washington University and named after the creature in the #Beatles movie Yellow Submarine that sucked up everything.
It consisted basically of an air pump that pulled air through an array of cylindrical collection rods. Particles are collected on the oil-coated rods by inertial deposition.