PIGGYBACK

This flight was performed to send to the stratosphere several payloads which originally should have been flown in the BIG-60 balloon qualification test flight that was cancelled early in the season due to not able to meet minimum flight duration.

The three payloads transported were:

SPARROW (Sensor Package for Attitude, Rotation, and Relative Observable Winds) is a sensor package capable of measuring the relative wind seen by the gondola during ascent, float, and descent phases of flight. The development is being carried out by the Center Independent Research & Development at NASA Goddard as a key milestone to the development of a balloon trajectory control system for NASA's Super Pressure Balloon.

EMIDSS-1 (Experimental Module for Iterative Design for Satellite Subsystems, versión 1) is a cubesat-based technological platform whose main purpose is to test and validate in a near space environment satellite sub-systems to be launched in the near future to the space. It a development by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y del Instituto Politécnico Nacional also from Mexico.

pGRAMPA a single detector prototype of the planned GRAMPA experiment. The detector is a wide-field, collimated CsI scintillator sensitive to soft gamma-rays between 25 keV and 1 MeV.

Balloon launched on: 9/4/2019 at 13:42 utc
Launch site: Scientific Flight Balloon Facility, Fort Sumner, (NM), US  
Balloon launched by: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Raven Aerostar - W11.82-1E-59 - 11.820.000 cuft
Flight identification number: 697N
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 9/4/2019 at 17:37 utc
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 3 h 55 m
Landing site: South of Willard, New Mexico, US
Payload weight: 1414 lbs

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