Announcement of EOSS-18

LAUNCH DATE :            August 20,1994
BACKUP LAUNCH DATE:      August 21,1994
LAUNCH TIME :            16:00 UTC
LAUNCH SITE:             NAVSYS Corp.
                         Monument, Colorado, USA
                         Take the Baptist Rd. exit from I-25, go west to
                         WoodCarver Rd. (the first left) then south to
                         NAVSYS Corp.

LAUNCH SITE COORDINATES: latitude    39.09165 deg North
                                                     longitude  104.87129 deg West

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT: Flight Qualification of the payload stabilization
                                         system. Otherwise known as the "despin device"

EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED BY: Larry Cerney/N0STZ
PROJECT INTEGRATOR:      Larry Cerney/N0STZ
FREQUENCIES:
Shuttle II:
    Telemetry    144.340 MHz (AX.25 Packet - Plain Text)
    ATV          426.250 MHz

Tracking Beacon: 147.555 MHz (CW FM)

HF Net: 7230 kHz LSB + or - QRM

Tracking and Recovery Team: 146.970 MHz Repeater

PURPOSE OF THE FLIGHT:



The purpose of the flight of EOSS 18 will be to test the stabilization system that was built from scratch by Larry Cerney/N0STZ. Larry has been diligently developing this system for the past several months.

Since the early days of EOSS, we have searched for ways to slow the rapidly spinning payload as it ascends and descends through the atmosphere. Larry has come up with stabilization system that will offer us better ATV video and also help alleviate some of the stresses that have been put on other components of the balloon payload train. If you were in attendance at the ground station during the flight of EOSS 17 you may have seen the mock-up of Larry's system.

73's

Brian/N0VSA

brian.thomas@filebank.com (dead email, try webmaster@eoss.org)