The NASA rocky mountain space grant high altitude research balloon project

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Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994adspr..14b.147m&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177), vol. 14, no. 2, p. (2)147-(2)149

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Nasa Programs, Ozone, Stratosphere, Superpressure Balloons, University Program, Atmospheric Circulation, Atmospheric Density, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Global Positioning System, Ultraviolet Spectrometers

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A group of U.S. universities, under the auspices of NASA's Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, has initiated a super-pressure balloon research project to measure ozone column density in the atmosphere above 20 kilometers, together with stratospheric circulation between 20 km and 40 km, over the continental U.S.A. Data from a balloon-borne ultraviolet spectrometer, together with time, altitude, latitude and longitude information from a Global Positioning System receiver, are recorded at ten-minute intervals during daytime hours in an on-board solid-state data logger. Coded messages are transmitted nightly from selected amateur radio ground stations to a receiver in the balloon gondola to command the transmission of packet radio bursts from the data logger to the ground stations, for relay to a central data collection and analysis facility at Utah State University. Discussions are under way with radio amateurs and members of the international scientific balloon community regarding extension of flights to cover the earth's northern hemisphere.

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