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WE report new diffuse background measurements of the night sky obtained with three submillimetre detectors. These observations were made on December 2, 1970. A liquid-helium cooled telescope was carried by an Aerobee 170 to an altitude of 190 km. Six detectors covering bandwidths in the 5 µm–1.5 mm range were flown: the results from the near infrared detectors will be reported separately.
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PIPHER, J., HOUCK, J., JONES, B. et al. Submillimetre Observations of the Night Sky Emission above 120 Kilometres. Nature 231, 375–378 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231375a0
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