Design issues for large scientific balloons

AIAA's 3rd Annual Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Forum

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Baginski, Frank E ^a   Schur, Willi W ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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