In case anyone's forgotten, the International Space Station (ISS) is still in orbit. The ISS is still manned by a crew and the ARISS payload is still active. ...
At this point, it looks pretty decent for launches in both the Omaha and Boulder areas. Some showers are possible along the Front Range, but I think they'll...
The forecast for next weekend isn't quite as nice as it looked earlier in the week. The last three runs of the GFS model indicate unsettled weather through...
The payloads are programmed and ready to go except for battery charging. The wind forecasts for the last two days all have a strong component from the east....
It appears a moored helium balloon was used to give people rides, then a storm kicked up and the mooring lines caught a young girl and dragged her away (I...
The forecast situation for this weekend will make it tough for everyone to determine a proper launch site. At least two weak circulation centers over the...
Still looks like a short chase, but now the direction is to the south or southeast between 5 and 15 miles. This would let us launch from Scott's place....
The forecasts are still all over the place, but not as many of them are putting the landing west of the launch site. The 18Z GFS has us landing about 10 miles...
Due to "guidance" from the FAA, the GPSL flights in Colorado will launch by NLT 0700 MDT (1300 UTC). We'll adjust our launch time to match. I'm hoping to get...
I'm 90% sure we'll be launching from Scott's place, but won't be making the final decision on that until late afternoon Friday. A map to the launch site and a...
I've topped off the batteries and everything is ready. The wind forecasts continue to show a landing to the east - the 18Z Eta says it will land 3 miles east...
The 18Z GFS and Eta output are almost identical with a due east track - the Eta says 3 miles, the GFS says 7. My "official" forecast is for the surface winds...
Wow, last night my map looked like a kid drew on it, and it isn't much better this morning. So.......I threw a dart, rubber suction type, and here is where it...
Only problem today is that the balloon burst at 81K instead of the expected 98K. Primary and backup beacons and the simplex repeater all functioned OK -...
http://www.nstar.org/NSTAR03C/NSTAR03C-air.html You can see the balloon shadow in the first two. The videotape is probably one of the best we've gotten to...
For complete information on the ANSR-13 flight as part of GPSL 2003. http://www.kd7lmo.net/ansr_13.html 73s de ANSR Michael Gray, KD7LMO Jack Crabtree, AA0P ...
I have enhanced the aerial photos, included ground photos, and now have a map and flight summary posted to http://www.nstar.org/#03C. I hope to have video and...
From the APRSSIG. About 90 minutes after launch, their tracker failed at 26,000 ft when the balloon was south of Detroit. The balloon's track took it south...
Out of curiosity, I searched for "balloon" in yesterday's pilot reports from 1100 to 0300 UTC. Here are three. COS UA /OV BRK 340020/TM 1455/FL360/TP LJ60/RM...
COS is Colorado Springs and BRK is the Black Forest VORTAC also located in Colorado Springs. So it looks like two seperate balloon flights in the same day....
The payload from the Detroit flight was found today near Columbus OH. Also, I found a site that had PIREPs going back to 1 April. I took a look at the files...
... With the size of our balloons and the speed at which jets fly by, I suspect the balloon would whiz by them before they noticed it. I suppose our biggest...
Hi, yawl, Thanks to Mark for pulling those down. Kinda surprised that there weren't more PIREPs during GPSL. As I read that first one, a Lear Jet LJ60)...
The COS report was the same date as the others for the Detroit flight (Sunday the 22nd), so it wasn't a GPSL balloon. No balloon PIREPs were found for the...
From the APRSSIG. 73 de Mark N9XTN =============================== Subject: Data from KPC-3+/failure analysis of balloon payload From: "Rochte, Robert"...
Los Angeles Times June 30, 2003 Balloon Launch To N. Korea Aims To Sow Dissent Activists hope the radios included in the airborne parcels will help open ...
Hi all, Is anyone planning a launch around Labor Day this year? I'd like to try again for some sort of balloon-to-balloon digipeating if possible. I'm also...
I came across this on the www.phanderson.com site today: http://www.phanderson.com/basicx/hih3605.html/ This is a RH sensor good from -40 to +85C and requires...
Mark, Another humididty sensor that I've flown is made by Sensirion. It offers a temperature and humididty sensor in the same package with a digital I2C ...
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