LOW TEMPERATURE AIR SAMPLER

Balloon launched on: 9/9/1973
Launch site: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, US  
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Winzen - 42.476 m3 (17.78 microns - Stratofilm)
Flight identification number: 777P
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 9/9/1973
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): F 2 h
Payload weight: 394 kgs

This was the first flight of the sampler system

• Balloonborne low temperature air sampler Review of Scientific Instruments 46, 702 (1975)
• National Scientific Balloon Facility Annual Report FY 1974 National Center for Atmospheric Research, December 1974
• The vertical distribution of trace gases in the stratosphere Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH, Volume 113, Issue 1, pp.389-402
• Vertical Profiles of CH4, H2, CO, N2O and CO2 in the Stratosphere Proceedings of the Third Conference on the Climatic Impact Assessment Program, 1974, p. 153