Survey of balloon design problems and prospects for large super-pressure balloons in the next century

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1183-1192

  Yajima, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACE RESEARCH; SURVEYING;

PAYLOAD CAPABILITIES;

BALLOONS;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0036389063     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)00531-8     Document Type: Article

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