LaACES Student Balloon Program

ACES-01 Launch Pictures	ACES-01 Launch Videos	ACES-01 Team Results

	ACES had a successful balloon launch of three student payloads at 0720 CDT on Wednesday, 5/21/03 from the National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF) in Palestine Texas.
The balloon reached 98,179 feet before bursting at 09:09 CDT and was recovered about a half hour after landing in a pasture 60 miles from the launch site. Preliminary results from the ACES-01 flight are shown below. The flight path, as provided by the tracking group, is shown along with detail maps of liftoff and touchdown. Also shown is a plot of the altitude profile for the flight.
	Prelimary results from the payloads are also shown here. External temperature was measured by TIC which also measured Infra-Red emission. FLUX has measure the cosmic ray count rate during the mission and StuMURD will be analyzing UV transmission through the atmosphere.
See the ACES-01 Team Pages for raw data results from the individual payloads. In addition, the TIC payload flew a camera which returned pictures up to about 60,000 feet.
Detailed map of ACES-01 liftoff	Map of ACES-01 flight path	Detailed map of ACES-01 touchdown

Plot of ACES-01 altitude as a function of time	External temperature versus time as measured by the TIC experiment	Internal temperature of the StuMURD experiment as a function of time

Preliminary cosmic ray results from the FLUX experiment	Preliminary Infra-red results from the TIC experiment	Preliminary Ultra-Violet transmission results from the StuMURD experiment




Our Thanks to the NSBF for use of the facilities and for assistance with the launch, to the Baton Rouge and Palestine Amateur Radio Societies for aid in tracking, repeating and recording the balloon position, to LSU personnel for helping the students in design, construction and testing of the payloads, and to the Space Grant Program for supporting this workforce development effort.

ACES-01 Flight Results