On Sunday, 21 April 2024, three Lite (Exempt) balloons were launched from Deer Trail School in Deer Trail, Colorado. Weather was cloudy, with a temperature of 32 degress in light Southeast winds.
EOSS-355, the first balloon, was for Metro State University Intro2Space Program, was a 3000 gram balloon launched at 0718 (ALL TIMES MDT) and ascended to 109,842 feet altitude when it released at 0847. It landed at 0934 near Mt Pearl, CO at 38.9567 North, -102.7625 West.
On Sunday, March 17, 2024, one 2000 gram balloon was launched from Deer Trail Colorado carrying student payloads sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA -- https://ndiarmc.org/ ).
The payloads consisted of 250 student experiments inside 3 Payload boxes. These experiments were from schools in Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Virginia and Mississippi.
The launch on November 11, 2023 from Deer Trail, Colorado was flight EOSS-350, one 3000g balloon, launch time was 6:57am. There were 24 payloads from COSGC, it was a site to see the balloon go up followed by 24 payloads covered in shiny silver tape reflecting the sun.
Two 3,000 g balloons were launched from Deer Trail on November 4, 2023. Both flights landing NorthEast of Kit Carson.
The Deer Trail parking lot was full of cars for the two launches. It was estimated over 100 cars and how many would follow us out to recovery? It turned out 10 student/parent cars went out with each balloon. Thank you to both schools for bringing coffee, donuts, juice, and snacks. A big thank you for making Deer Creek School look spiffy after much eating, gluing, taping, weighing, and stringing of payloads.
A single 1500g balloon was launched at 8:07 am MDT on October 21, 2023 from Deer Trail School carrying student expreiments from a variety of schools. The balloon reached a height of approximately 86,000 feet and landed south of Arickaree, Colorado.
A slngle 3000g balloon was launched at 0700 on July 22, 2023 from Genoa, CO carrying two payloads developed by the Ball Aerospace BIRST program. The balloon reached an altitude of 103,247 feet and was released at that point to minimize post-burst chaos. The balloon landed approximatly 30 miles to the south near Aroyo, Colorado.
A 3000g balloon was launched on June 17, 2023 from the University of Alabama Huntsville campus (34.724830, -86.646535) as part of the Great Plains Superlaunch event. The balloon reached 78,940 feet, burst, and landed 41 statute miles to the southeast in a corn field near Hopewell, Alabama (34.36889, -86.05900).Video and pictures from GPSL are shown at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/@gpsllive5740
Submitted by Rob Wright on Fri, 05/05/2023 - 20:28
One 1500g balloon [EOSS-342] was launched from Wiggins High School at 06:56 am MDT on Saturday June 3, 2023.
The balloon carried 2 DSST HS payloads, 1 Wheat Ridge HS payload and the EOSS GoPro Max Camera.
EOSS-342 rose to an altitude of 101,427 feet where the balloon burst.
The payload string then landed about 2.5 miles northof Eaton, CO in Ault, CO at 0842 MDT at Latitude 40.5657, Longitude -104.7224, Altitude 4,902 ft [300 yards north of CR-80 just east of US-85].
