Recap of EOSS-92

EOSS attended the

Great Plains Super Launch

where we flew:

EOSS-92

LAUNCH DATE: 2-Jul-2005
LAUNCH TIME:08:24 am CDT (13:24 UTC)
LAUNCH SITE: Omaha, NE (See www.superlaunch.org for launch site details)

Pre-flight Prediction and Actual Track

Launch Site - Treynor High IA
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   Launch Point: 41.2317° lat.   -95.6078° long.
           Grid: X=10.00 Y=50.00
    Ascent Rate: 1000 feet per minute
   Descent Rate: 910 feet per minute
       Altitude: 984 feet

Maps made with MapPoint
Prediction made with Balloon Track

Predicted Landing Site
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  Landing Point: 41.1406° lat.  -94.8776° long.
           Grid: X=48.0 Y=43.7
       Altitude: 1501 feet
    Flight Time: 140 Minutes
        Bearing: 99.2° True
          Range: 38.5 Mi.

Actual Landing Site
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  Landing Point: 41.1334° lat.  -94.8572° long.
           Grid: X=49.1 Y=43.2
        Bearing: 99.6° True
          Range: 39.6 Mi.

Difference from Predicted to Actual Landing Site
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        Bearing: 115.3° True
          Range: 1.2 Mi.

EOSS Frequencies:

EOSS-092

• Beacon
  • 145.600 MHz
    • ID: AEØSS in CW
    • Tracking Tone then CW ID
• APRS
  • 144.360 MHz (Payload Train)
    • ID: AEØSS-11
    • DIGI: EOSS
    • Node: BALNOD
    • Time Slotted to 0:50 thru 0:59 after the GPS minute
    • Sample Data
• ATV
  • De-spun ATV package
  • 426.250 MHz
  • ID: AE0SS

Flight Systems:

EOSS-092

Payload Configuration:

• Payload_Plan_92.pdf (we flew the primary configuration)

Internet Gateway Stations:

as seen on Findu.Com

For AE0SS-11

• KE6DZD - Wayne Jorns of Bellevue, NE
• KC0ULI-15 - Stephen Entz of Topeka, KS
• W0JRT - Jerome Tonneson of Lenexa, KS
• WW5WOW - Larry Little of Claremore, OK

EOSS wishes to express our sincere appreciation to the stations above who iGated the balloon APRS telemetry onto the internet. It's nice to travel to a location other than your home court and get such wonderful support.

Tracking and Recovery Info:

Below are links to recaps by the folks indicated.

By Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

By Randy Reynard, NQ0R

Notes:

Our Customer

EOSS, yep it's just for the fun of it. Of course we're always testing out payloads, especially since we managed to fry one on a recent mission.

Photos:

On the Road (there and back)

• by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

At Econo Lodge

• by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

At Dinner(s)

• by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ
• by Marty Griffin, WA0GEH

At the Symposium

• by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ
• by Marty Griffin, WA0GEH

Flight Day

by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

• Launch Site
• Recovery Part 1
• Recovery Part 2

by Marty Griffin, WA0GEH

• EOSS activities at Launch Site
• Other Groups at Launch Site
• At the Recovery Site

Later that Day
by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

• Lunch at Zelda's (The Hayloft)
• A visit to the Union Pacific Railroad Museum
• Rick's Place - a restaurant on the Missouri river. Mostly we walked around the river's bank.

Videos:

Working on it

Data:

Plain Text Files

• Log of 144.360 as heard aboard N0KKZ-7 while we tracked EOSS-092
• Findu.com log of AE0SS-11
• AE0SS-11's KPC3 log of the GPGGA strings transmitted. Annotated by Mike Manes
• Combined log of all of the above showing AE0SS-11 only
• Nice log of GPSL2005 by W9KAO

Ascii Delimited Spread Sheet file

• eoss092_Flight_Data.csv - EOSS's data only

Charting

• Steve Osborne's KC0YA Charts