GRIP (Gamma-Ray Imaging Payload)

Balloon launched on: 10/15/1986 at 14:18 utc
Launch site: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, US  
Balloon launched by: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon N26-8/8/8/8T-23.30
Balloon serial number: R23.30-3-106
Flight identification number: 1434P
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 10/16/1986 at 17:48 utc
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 27 h 30 m
Landing site: 26 miles SW of Greenville, Mississippi, US

• First Flight of a New Balloon-Borne Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope 20th International Cosmic Ray Conference Moscow, Volume 1, p.84
• GRIP website Space Radiation Laboratory - California Institute of Technology
• The Imaging of Extra-Galactic Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources Prospects, Techniques, and Instrumentation thesis by Mark Harold Finger, California Institute of Technology, 1987
• The Imaging of Extra-Galactic Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources: Prospects, Techniques, and Instrumentation Ph.D. Thesis, Finger, Mark Harold, California Institute of Technology, 1988