Test and development of inflatable spheres instrumented with miniaturized thermistors, accelerometers and pressure transducers
Abstract
Instrumentation was developed for the high altitude inflatable sphere to measure its skin temperature, acceleration and internal pressure. The sphere without instrumentation has routinely been used over the past 10 years to provide measurements of winds, density, temperature and pressure between 100 Km and 30 Km altitude. With the miniaturized instrumentation package onboard, the system offers the potential for providing meteorological information as well as a better understanding of sphere performance and dynamics during its descent. Of the six launches of instrumented spheres only one provided telemetry data. However, many of the objectives of the program were achieved.
- Publication:
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Final Report Dayton Univ
- Pub Date:
- April 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978dayu.rept.....L
- Keywords:
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- Accelerometers;
- High Altitude Balloons;
- Pressure Sensors;
- Thermistors;
- Mesosphere;
- Meteorological Parameters;
- Miniature Electronic Equipment;
- Sounding Rockets;
- Stratosphere;
- Instrumentation and Photography