A 3-year Balloon Instrumentation R&D effort is summarized. Approaches are described and results are given for the seven principal tasks that were successfully carried out: (1) Ballast valve redesign; (2) Development and refinement of tethered aerostat flight performance computer programs; (3) Research into performance characteristics of the standard EV-13 helium valve; (4) Development of a ground station and flight components of a balloon tracking system designed to work with the Omega navigational system; (5) The design of an ultra-sensitive high altitude balloon motion sensing package; (6) The development of tethered aerostat instrumentation package; (7) The rehabilitation of a 45,000 cubic ft ILC Aerostat. It is concluded that the program was highly productive, providing the U.S. Air Force with new instruments and techniques to augment its balloon operational capabilities.


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    Title :

    Balloon Instrumentation Engineering and Development


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1985


    Size :

    39 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English