Thin-film balloon for high altitude observation

Matsuzaka, Y.; Yamagami, T.; Namiki, Michiyoshi; Toriumi, Michihiko; Ohta, Shigeo; Makino, F.; Hirosawa, H.

doi:10.1016/s0273-1177(00)00062-4

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“…8). The altitude of 50.7 km is beyond the Japanese altitude record of 50.2 km, which was established by the 120,000 m 3 balloon made of 5.8 lm film in 1997 (Matsuzaka et al, 2000).…”

Section: 000 M 3 Balloonmentioning

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Development of the highest altitude balloon

Yamagami

Saito

Matsuzaka

et al. 2004

Advances in Space Research

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“…8). The altitude of 50.7 km is beyond the Japanese altitude record of 50.2 km, which was established by the 120,000 m 3 balloon made of 5.8 lm film in 1997 (Matsuzaka et al, 2000).…”

Section: 000 M 3 Balloonmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…As shown in Table 1, we exceeded 50 km in 1997 with a 120,000 m 3 balloon (Matsuzaka et al, 2000). Then, we set the next goal to make the balloon weight itself lighter.…”

Section: Ultra-thin Filmmentioning

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Development of the highest altitude balloon

Yamagami

Saito

Matsuzaka

et al. 2004

Advances in Space Research

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“…In order to explore the mesosphere more easily with light payloads, since 1991 we have been incrementally developing lightweight balloons made from very thin polyethylene¯lms. In 1997, a balloon with a volume of 120,000 m 3 made from a 5.8-m-thick¯lm lifted an 11.8-kg payload to an altitude of 50.2 km, which at the time was the record balloon altitude in Japan (Yamagami et al, 1998;Matsuzaka et al, 2000). Next, we developed a thinner polyethylenē lm with a thickness of 3.4 m using metallocene as a catalyst (Saito et al, 2002).…”

Section: Ultra-thin-¯lm Balloonsmentioning

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Recent Highlights of Scientific Ballooning in Japan

Fuke

2017

J. Astron. Instrum.

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Since 2008, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has carried out annual domestic balloon campaigns from Taiki Aerospace Research Field (TARF). Productive results have been obtained by many projects in academic¯elds such as atmospheric science, space engineering, cosmic-ray physics, and astronomy. In 2013, an 80,000-m 3 balloon made from a 2.8-m ultra-thin polyethylene¯lm reached an altitude of 53.7 km, equaling the world record for the altitude of an unmanned balloon. In 2015, JAXA carried out a balloon campaign from Alice Springs in Australia as a precursor of future sustainable overseas activities to compliment the domestic ones at TARF. In this paper, we discuss recent highlights of and future prospects for Japanese scienti¯c ballooning.

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“…Reid et al 1994, Chane-Ming et al 2000, Tateno and Sato, 2008. Ultra-thin-film high-altitude balloons that can attain an altitude of about 50 km (Matsuzaka et al 2000) have been used since 2004.…”

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Measurements of stratospheric ozone with a balloon-borne optical ozone sensor

Murata

Sato

Okano

et al. 2009

International Journal of Remote Sensing

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We have developed a balloon-borne optical ozone sensor and since 1994 have observed the vertical distribution of upper stratospheric ozone in summer using a thin-film high-altitude balloon at Sanriku, Japan. The sensor measures solar ultraviolet radiation in ozone Hartley band absorption at wavelength of 300 nm, and vertical ozone distributions higher than 15 km were obtained with 1 km resolution. The temporal variations of ozone concentrations above 30 km from 1994 to 2007 show correlations with 11-year variation of solar F10.7 flux and we could not detect decreasing or increasing trends.

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Thin-film balloon for high altitude observation

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Development of the highest altitude balloon

Development of the highest altitude balloon

Recent Highlights of Scientific Ballooning in Japan

Measurements of stratospheric ozone with a balloon-borne optical ozone sensor

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