Recap of EOSS-59

Entire flight for payloads

Green = Flight Track

LAUNCH DATE: August 17, 2002
LAUNCH TIME: 11:00 am MDT, 17:00 UTC
LAUNCH SITE: Meadow Lake Airport (directions and map here)

Frequencies:

• HF Net during Flight
  • 7235 KHz starting at 12:30 UTC (6:30am MDT)
• APRS
  • 145.600 MHz (Payload APRS Beacon)
    • ID: W5VSI-11
  • 445.975 MHz (Balloon APRS Beacon)
    • ID: KC0JHQ-11
    • Why a beacon on the balloon, see notes below
• Packet
  • 144.340 MHz (Telemetry from the GAINS Experiment)
    • Do NOT connect to this station please
    • Record Telemetry, it may help fill holes
• Beacon
  • 147.555 MHz CW ID Only
• ATV
  • 426.250 MHz (A NOAA ATV System not EOSS's)
• Tracking and Recovery Operations
  • 448.450 MHz (100 Hz tone required) PPFMA Repeater
  • 146.550 MHz simplex (same simplex for field and launch ops)
• Simplex at Launch Site
  • 146.550 MHz (same simplex for field and launch ops)

Experiments:

Details available on the archived Announcement page for EOSS-59

Recaps:

• N�KKZ recap - the long form
• N�TQN recap - from the Deep Space Experimental Society's viewpoint
• KC�JHQ recap - from the launch to recovery
• Mark Young's recap - Our helicopter pilot weighs in

Close up Maps

• Several close up shots of flight tracks

Photos

• Nick Hanks N�LP Launch site photos
• Scott Trumpeter N�LNE Photos
  • Surface
  • Airborne
• Rich Denton KB�SNO Photos from Launch Site
• Jim Zimmerman K�JLZ Photos of Ann in Helicopter and the GAINS payload prior to launch.

Charts

• Charts showing the Altitude and Ascent Rate of the EOSS-59 payload
• N�LP's charts

Telemetry

Plain Text Log Files

Payloads

• Complete W5VSI Aprs data (combined from several sources)
• Track Log file pulled from KPC3 Plus after flight (no GPRMC)

Raven Balloon

• Limited data from the APRS station attached to the Balloon

Spreadsheets (ASCII delimited data)

Payloads

• Complete W5VSI Aprs data (combined from several sources)
• Track Log file pulled from KPC3 Plus after flight (no GPRMC)

Raven Balloon

• Limited data from the APRS station attached to the Balloon