Seth Kendall, KC1PZY, writes on the New England Sci-Tech ARS mailing list:
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to let you all know we are aiming to launch two separate StratoScience Lab balloons THIS WEDNESDAY 8/14 from NEST. That means we’ll actually be filling up and releasing the balloon from the NEST parking lot. Exact time is not nailed down yet, but release will most likely be sometime between 10am and 2pm. We’ll update here the night before or morning of. Since it is taking place at NEST, we also may be able to run the STARS Zoom meeting and have flight prep and the releases going live on Zoom. We will update on that as well. We will have a HamXposition presentation detailing all the projects, and maybe we can do a version of this at a STARS meeting, but just to give you a preview of what will be flown this week:
StratLab 2024 A:
- Solar Tracking Rotator (Roy Y.)
- Spectroscopy Sensor (Timmy B.)
- Servo Heating System (Elias D.)
- IMU Recorder and Downward Camera (Ewoud V.)
- BFCCPS Humidity Sensor Experiment (NEWBS / BFCCPS School)
- RunCam Split 4 Selfie Camera (Seth K. / NEWBS)
- Tiny4FSK (Max K. / NEWBS) – 432.620 MHz
- RS41 (Max K. / NEWBS) – 432.625 MHz
- [maybe] Test version of altitude-based rocket igniter board (Dawid F.)
StratoSoar 2024 A:
- Autonomous Glider (Charlie N.)
- Planned separation at ~1600m
- Also contains a Tiny4FSK (Max K. / NEWBS) – 432.630 MHz
- RS41 (Max K. / NEWBS) – 432.635 MHz
- RunCam Split 4 Downward Camera (Seth K. / NEWBS)
This means we will also have 3 separate recovery sites, so if anyone would be interested in helping to recover a payload, please let us know! We could use all the help we can get. Even if you’re only available after work hours. All 3 trackers should hopefully be trackable on https://amateur.sondehub.org/
Best,
Seth KC1PZY and Max W0MXX