Flight demonstration of a superpressure balloon by three-dimensional gore design

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1221-1226

  Izutsu, N ^a   Yajima, N ^a   Ohta, S ^a   Honda, H ^a   Kurokawa, H ^b   Matsushima, K ^c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c Fujikura Parachute Company   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BALLOONS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

FLIGHT TEST;

SPACE RESEARCH;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; DESIGN;

EID: 0036386665     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)00536-7     Document Type: Article

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