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EOSS-142

Flight Coordinator: Larry Cerney, K0ANI k0ani@eoss.org

LAUNCH DATE: July 11th, 2009 (Jul 12)
LAUNCH TIME: 07:00 MDT (13:00 UTC)
LAUNCH SITE: Deer Trail, CO (see directions)

Payload Experiment Designer

• Upward Bound

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:
  • 147.225 MHz 8 pm MDT the evening prior to flight day
    • 145.160 MHz simulcast in the Springs
    • 145.460 MHz simulcast in Boulder
  • 146.640 MHz will serve as a backup frequency
• Tracking and Recovery Operations
  • Drive out to Deer Trail (pre-flight)
    • 146.640 Mhz (until LOS)
    • 448.450 MHz (100 Hz tone) or 449.450 MHz (103.5 Hz tone)  after 64 quits. The frequency will be determined by the expected trajectory of the flight as indicated below. The extra freq will be removed once a firm prediction is established. Probably by Thursday evening.
  • Primary Recovery Operations Frequencies
    • 449.450 MHz (103.5 Hz tone) RMRL Repeater (northern trajectory)
    • 448.450 MHz (100 Hz tone) PPFMA Repeater (southern trajectory)
    • 146.550 MHz simplex (launch ops)
    • 146.550 MHz simplex
  • Repeater Coverage Pages - Listings of all repeaters available in the expected flight areas.
  • There may be FRS operations see THIS PAGE for a list of channel numbers and their associated UHF Frequencies.

EOSS-142 Balloon Payload Frequencies

• Beacons
  • 147.555 MHz
    • CW ID: AE0SS
• 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

Flight Systems: 

EOSS-142  

Payload Configuration:

• posted when it becomes available

Tracking and Recovery Info:

For example purposes, this data from our last flight (EOSS140/141) remains posted. IT will be updated the day before flight with current information

Breakfast

• I-70 and Airport Road McDonalds
  • Exit 285 on I-70
• Meet at 5:00 am

Grid

Location	Grid X	Grid Y
Last Chance lat = 39.74068° long = -103.59358° W	10	10
TrackPoint Test 39° 45 N 103° 15' W	28.2	10.7

 

Tactical Call Signs

Flight Related Info

• Prediction Page offers a map and text prediction of the flight path for the upcoming mission.
• A couple of WX Links
• EOSS Hardware Page - some photos and descriptions of various EOSS payloads
• APRS LIVE Tracking of EOSS Payloads on the Internet
• Maps and Directions to "all" of the EOSS standard Launch Sites.
• Check the EOSS Mailing Lists from Yahoo for the most up to date info.

Support Amateur Radio Repeater Groups

Future Flight Schedule

as of June 10th, 2009

All dates and launch locations should be considered tentative. The WX delay date is indicated by a "plus" x days indicator i.e. +1 means a one day delay is available +7 a one week delay is available. An "n" indicates no available WX delay date.

Tentative in fuchsia
Recently updated in Red

Flight numbers are always in a state of flux and so are not highlighted as being changed

SGC = Space Grant Consortium
GPSL = Great Plains Super Launch
USAFRL = United States Air Force Research Lab
NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
JOTA = Jamboree on the Air (Boy Scouts of America)