Flight operations for 2009 HASP begins next week. In fact, Michael Stewart and I will be traveling to Ft. Sumner, NM tomorrow (8/29). Student groups should have their payloads ready to go and fully integrated with HASP no later than late Wednesday (9/2) afternoon.

If you need to ship something to CSBF in Ft. Sumner, the mailing street address is

Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
HASP Greg Guzik
1885 E. Balloon Ave.
Ft. Sumner Municipal Airport
Ft. Sumner, NM 88119

I am still shooting for being flight ready by the end of the week (~9/4) with launch scheduled for the early part of the following week (~9/7). However, balloon launch schedules are highly variable and the actual launch could be earlier or much later. I will be able to obtain a better assessment of the CSBF plans once I get on site. I'll keep you posted.