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ACES-11 Flight Info
LAUNCH TIME: 1230Z Tuesday July 29
LAUNCH LOCATION: Columbia Scientific Balloon
Facility, Palestine, Texas (31.78317 deg N, 95.72333 deg W)
BURST TIME: TBD
BURST LOCATION: TBD
BURST ALTITUDE: ~100,000 Ft
TOUCHDOWN TIME: TBD
TOUCHDOWN LOCATION: TBD
ACES-11 Frequencies:
- Primary Beacon: APRS, 144.390 MHz, ID = K5LSU-11
- Secondary Beacon: APRS, 144.390 MHz, ID = W5YW-11
- Simplex Voice Repeater: 445.950 MHz with 100.0 Tone access.
- FM Direction Finding Beacon (15 mW) 445.975 MHz FM
- CW Direction Finding Beacon (15mW) 445.925 MHz CW
Live online tracking of the flight was available
Altitude profile data (Excel Workbook)
Altitude profile program (zipped file)
Flight Systems:
| Balloon Manufacturer | Kaymount |
| Balloon Type | latex |
| Balloon Size | 3000 gram |
| Nozzle Lift | ~17.6 pounds (estimate) |
| Free Lift % | ~5.6 pounds (estimate) |
| Ascent Rate | ~1000 fpm (target) |
| Descent Rate | 1200 fpm (estimate) |
| Peak Altitude | 101,000 ft. (target) |
| Launch Conditions | TBD |
Payload Configuration:
| Parachute: | Skyangle 60" - 372 grams |
| Cutdown Apparatus: | Nichrome heating element to melt nylon cord attaching top of parachute to balloon. Controlled by ground command through location beacon transceiver. Contains own batteries and battery heater. Also contains audio beeper. 205g |
| Primary Beacon: | Kenwood TH-D7 transceiver transmitting at 144.390 MHz at about 4 W, Sending ARPS packet data on a 40 second interval, Call sign K5LSU-11, Garmin GPS-25LVS, Passive conformal patch antenna for GPS - 777 grams |
| Antenna: | Half wave flexible J-Pole - 80 grams |
| Experiment A: | Norfolk State University (Norfolk, Va) Team Sparta Experiment: HuTemP Measuring Temperature, Pressure and Humidity |
| Experiment B: | Inter-American University of Puerto
Rico - Bayamon Campus Team TIGRE Experiment: ABITA Measuring Acceleration on 3 axes recording video imagery. |
| Secondary Beacon: | Kenwood TH-D7 transceiver transmitting at 144.390 MHz at about 4 W, Sending ARPS packet data on a 69 second interval, Call sign W5YW-11, Trimble Lassen iQ GPS with active patch antenna - 588 grams |
| Antenna: | Half wave flexible J-Pole - 80 grams |
| CW MORSE BEACON: | CW On/Off Keying 15mW 445.925MHz. 100 msec beep, 1 per second Morse ID every 10 Minutes. BeeLine CW Transmitter -- http://www.bigredbee.com |
| FM MORSE Beacon: | FM Modulated Morse 15mW 445.975MHz. 5 sec tone every 25sec interval. Morse ID every 10 Minutes. BeeLine FM Transmitter -- http://www.bigredbee.com |
| Simplex Repeater/Video: | Simplex FM repeater 300mW 445.950MHz
100.0 Tone Access. Voice ID K5LSU Digital Video Camcorder oriented upwards to image Balloon train. |
| Structure: | Flight train string, spreader bar, payload clips - 100 grams |
| Total weight of payload string is < 12 pounds |
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