NSTAR Flight 09-A is scheduled to fly from the Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium at UNL's Hardin Hall (East Campus, 33rd & Holdrege, Lincoln) on...
Link from the EOSS mailing list. The EOSS crew stopped here after recovering their payloads a few miles away during GPSL 2005. Since NSTAR often ends up...
As an interesting aside, the EOSS crew was pointed to Zelda's Hayloft in Grant by the farmer whose land we recovered from. So we donated a few $$$ for Zelda ...
The weather forecast for us next Saturday is turning against us. Rather than being between systems as predicted a few days ago, it now appears a strong surface...
Wondering, without doing any searching of the regulations, if there is a reason(s) for not doing night balloon launches? I am referring to the under 6 lb rule...
See http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Brian-Whittaker-www-BrianWhittaker-com-Redoubt-Ash_1238432595. jpg for an aircraft...
I hope to be flying with a camera this weekend too, but the weather in Lincoln is unlikely to be favorable (rain and 30-mph winds). Fingers crossed that the...
Our weather forecast has improved slightly. The low center is going to be about 6 hours slower pulling out of the Rockies Friday night into Saturday. Also,...
Our primary risk for no-go conditions for Saturday remains the strong surface winds expected. Today's forecast is for sustained winds of about 25 mph with...
Still not good for Saturday. Rain and thunderstorms are likely off and on through the day Saturday as the system approaches, and some of them could be ...
Due to 35-mph surface winds and rain/thunderstorms forecast for the region Saturday, NSTAR will not be flying at the Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium...
We will be launching a 1200 gram balloon with a 2.5 payload from the KWU football field in Salina KS this evening, 8 pm local. APRS on 144.39 with an ID of...
Having several balloons airborne and watching it in Google Earth is pretty cool. Go to aprs.fi and start Google Earth from there, then move your eye point to...
A synopsis of the KWU night flight. This was the 4th flight of the physics and math club working towards personal best of altitude and gaining experience in...
As I've been spending some time making sure my photos are backed up across several machines, I've been using Picasa to organize and upload the NSTAR-related...
Many of you may have received this from other lists, but I wanted to make sure the rest got this. I had several e-mail interactions with Mike over the past...
[Forwarded from the ANSR 'Ballooning' list - 73 de Mark N9XTN] ================================================================= (Received from his friend, Ron...
NSTAR Flight 09-A is still on for Saturday, May 2nd at 0800 CDT from a launch site near Omaha. Main APRS: N9XTN-11 on 144.36 MHz Backup APRS: N9XTN-12 on...
Weather forecasts for next weekend are still showing a lot of variation. Some are showing showers/thunderstorms, others are showing nice conditions. No strong...
The forecast for Saturday is for a 140-mph jet to be overhead, with a resulting chase distance of 150 miles. For a launch near Valley, NE this would put the...
Due to strong jet stream winds forecast for Saturday, NSTAR Flight 09-A and the paired NearSys flight are postponed to Sunday, May 3rd at 0900 CDT (1400 UTC). ...
Still on track for Sunday. It appears there may be some rain to our south early Sunday morning, but even that ends around sunrise. Clearing skies and light...
Our forecast track still points to a landing near or west of Villisca. Based on this, our launch site is officially Gretna HS. Most of us will arrive about...
Winds in the area have all dropped to less than 4 mph. Expecting very light winds well into the morning tomorrow. There are a few showers on radar passing...
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