Weather balloon crashes at sea
.. - 1 The SIOO.OOO weather bal-j loon released from Christ-! church Airport on Friday; jhas crashed into the sea; .about 600 km from Christ-j church. The balloon, which was! 14m in diameter, was sup- i posed to reach an altitude of! 20km and stay there for up! (to 10 years. | I It was supposed to send! imeterological data Back to jthe United States through a ’ satellite relay station in i! Trance. i “We knew there wash (something wrong soon after' jit reached altitude." said Mr’jl |V. E. Lally, of the American !National Centre for Atmos-? ■ pheric Research, last even-1J ling. 'f “Tomorrow morning we ' will go through the data and (see What went wrong.” | The balloon developed the,(defect in spite of a thorough it (inspection by Project Llama i staff to see whether its J, metallised polyester surface', had any defect. t “This must be the most „ documented weather balloon i ever. We will probably have ‘to come back and repeat the ■experiment,” Mr Lally said.
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