ISRO All Set To Launch 10 'Scientific Balloon Flights' With Tata's Fundamental Research
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research said 10-balloon flights will be launched from Hyderabad.
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research claimed that it is about to launch as many as 10 balloon flights in association with ISRO and the Department of Atomic Science.
These flights will be launched from Hyderabad, between November 15 to April 30 for scientific purposes.
"The balloons, which carry scientific instruments for research at high altitudes, are expected to reach heights between 30 km and 42 km depending upon the experiments being undertaken," said B Suneel Kumar, Scientist¨Cin¨Ccharge TIFR.
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These balloons are made of twin (Polyethylene) plastic films, ranging in diameters from 50 meters to 85 meters and normally launched between 2000 hrs and 0630 hrs.
These instruments will be kept in the balloon for a height, ranging from a few to 10, and then they will be released from the balloon.
After their releases, these instruments will come down to the ground in large coloured parachutes.
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The balloon will move from the Visakhapatnam-Hyderabad- Sholapur line, in the vicinity of AP, North Karnataka and Maharashtra states.
All these balloons will be released with messages inscribed on it, and the institute urges from people not to remove or open the package, but call on the given numbers so that they are taken care off.
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¡°The instruments are extremely sensitive and valuable, scientific data will be lost if they are tampered. There may be high voltages on some of the instruments, which will be dangerous, but only if the instruments are opened, up,¡± he said.
No award will be paid if the instrument is found damaged.
