Announcement of EOSS-144

Flight Coordinator: Nick Hanks, N0LP

LAUNCH DATE: July 18th, 2009
LAUNCH TIME: 07:30 CDT (12:30 UTC)
LAUNCH SITE:

• Mission Valley High School - 38.886033,-96.000667 (primary)
• Holton - Banner Creek Reservoir - 39.461417,-95.779333 (backup)

Payload Experiment Designer

• EOSS - Flight qualification possibilities

Experimenters are welcome to submit websites for linking or overviews which I will post on a page on the EOSS website.

EOSS Flight Day Frequencies:

Tracking and Recovery Frequencies

• Preflight Net:
  • No Net, we'll meet face to face Friday night.
• Tracking and Recovery Operations
  • These frequencies will be distributed Friday night

 

EOSS-144 Balloon Payload Frequencies

• Beacons
  • 145.600 MHz
    • CW ID: W5VSI
• APRS
  • 144.340 MHz
    • ID: AEØSS-11
    • DIGI: EOSS
    • Node: BALNOD
    • APRS Time Slotted Every 30 seconds at 0:00 and 0:30
      • power up at 58 seconds past the GPS minute to properly slot telemetry
    • Telemetry once a minute
    • Sample Data
• ATV
  • 426.250 MHz AM
    • ID: AE0SS
    • GPS overlay

Flight Systems: 

EOSS-144  

Payload Configuration:

• Payload_Plan_GPSL2009_rev5.pdf