LAUNCH DATE: June 18, 2000
LAUNCH TIME: 15:00 UTC - 09:00 MDT
LAUNCH SITE: Pikes Peak Radio Control Club Airport (Here's a Map.)
Located East of Falcon Colorado on US 24 (9 or 10 miles east of Colorado Springs on US 24). 4 miles east of Falcon take Judge Orr road east. Follow this road 4.2 miles to Pikes Peak Radio Control Club Airport. Use the simplex frequency at the launch site for talk-in.
LAUNCH SITE COORDINATES:
PREDICTED TRACK:
Landing Point: 38.988� lat. -103.6865� long.
Altitude: 4199 feet
Flight Time: 120 Minutes
Bearing: 86.8� True
Range: 43.8 Mi.
PRIMARY FLIGHT EXPERIMENT: Second test of new �Shuttle� built by UCCS. Test of shuttle�s flight worthiness, downlink telemetry, system control and ATV. The ATV will be used to monitor and confirm the success of the secondary experiment.
PRIMARY PROJECT INTEGRATOR: Colorado Springs (UCCS), Dr. Chuck Fosha, Brett Allard, and a host of aerospace students
SECONDARY INTEGRATOR: Pioneer Astronautics, Dr. Robert Zubrin, Dean Spieth, �Mars Micro Balloon Probe�.
SECONDARY EXPERIMENT: This is the first of many planned EOSS flights for the �Mars Micro Balloon Probe� which will place a series of balloons in the Martian atmosphere. The objective of this flight are to test and develop inflatable gases from compounds that are normally liquids at Standard Temperature and Pressure (STP). The Mars surface pressure is simulated at 100,000 feet above sea level, thus the experiment on an EOSS balloon. This experiment will attempt to inflate balloons using various compounds. This will also permit a test of the deployment canisters required on Mars.
FREQUENCIES:
Shuttle Generated Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS):
Many thanks go to Bob, N0TI, who shoehorned the Bob-E box code into the RMRL crossband repeater. More thanks go to Mike W5VSI who mashed the hardware into the repeater enclosure. Now the APRS data will be sent down on the 147.555 downlink after the input 445.975 squelch closes. Once per minute.
The packet callsign will be: W0WYX
In order to minimize possible interference with the tracking and recovery team and other hams in your area, we request you turn off the position beacons at your APRS station on 147.555 MHz. There is NOT a digi aboard this payload so packets addressed to:
APRS via W0WYX
Cross Band Operations: