The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility is responsible for ensuring that science payloads meet the appropriate design requirements. The ultimate goal is to ensure that payloads stay within the allowable launch limits as well as survive the termination event. The purpose of this presentation is to provide some general guidelines for Gondola Design. These include rules and reasons on why CSBF has a certain preference and location for certain components within the gondola as well as other suggestions. Additionally, some recommendations are given on how to avoid common pitfalls.


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    Title :

    Guidelines and Suggestions for Balloon Gondola Design


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    The Scientific Ballooning Technologies Workshop ; 2016 ; Minneapolis, MN, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-05-09


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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