Recap of EOSS-92

EOSS attended the

Great Plains Super Launch

where we flew:

EOSS-92

LAUNCH DATE: 2-Jul-2005
LAUNCH TIME:08:24 am CDT (13:24 UTC)
LAUNCH SITE: Omaha, NE (See www.superlaunch.org for launch site details)

Pre-flight Prediction and Actual Track

Launch Site - Treynor High IA
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Launch Point: 41.2317� lat.   -95.6078� long.
Grid: X=10.00 Y=50.00
Ascent Rate: 1000 feet per minute
Descent Rate: 910 feet per minute
Altitude: 984 feet

Maps made with MapPoint
Prediction made with Balloon Track

Predicted Landing Site
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Landing Point: 41.1406� lat.  -94.8776� long.
Grid: X=48.0 Y=43.7
Altitude: 1501 feet
Flight Time: 140 Minutes
Bearing: 99.2� True
Range: 38.5 Mi.
Actual Landing Site
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Landing Point: 41.1334� lat.  -94.8572� long.
Grid: X=49.1 Y=43.2
Bearing: 99.6� True
Range: 39.6 Mi.
Difference from Predicted to Actual Landing Site
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Bearing: 115.3� True
Range: 1.2 Mi.

EOSS Frequencies:

EOSS-092

• Beacon
  • 145.600 MHz
    • ID: AE�SS in CW
    • Tracking Tone then CW ID
• APRS
  • 144.360 MHz (Payload Train)
    • ID: AE�SS-11
    • DIGI: EOSS
    • Node: BALNOD
    • Time Slotted to 0:50 thru 0:59 after the GPS minute
    • Sample Data
• ATV
  • De-spun ATV package
  • 426.250 MHz
  • ID: AE0SS

Flight Systems:

EOSS-092

Payload Configuration:

• Payload_Plan_92.pdf (we flew the primary configuration)

Internet Gateway Stations:

as seen on Findu.Com

For AE0SS-11

• KE6DZD - Wayne Jorns of Bellevue, NE
• KC0ULI-15 - Stephen Entz of Topeka, KS
• W0JRT - Jerome Tonneson of Lenexa, KS
• WW5WOW - Larry Little of Claremore, OK

EOSS wishes to express our sincere appreciation to the stations above who iGated the balloon APRS telemetry onto the internet. It's nice to travel to a location other than your home court and get such wonderful support.

Tracking and Recovery Info:

Below are links to recaps by the folks indicated.

By Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

By Randy Reynard, NQ0R

In March of 2009 Mike Kilen of the Des Moines Register wrote an article about a restaurant where many of the T&R folks had lunch. I have his permission to link to it:

• Zelda's Hayloft Bar tends the soul of Grant (Pop.93)

Notes:

Our Customer

EOSS, yep it's just for the fun of it. Of course we're always testing out payloads, especially since we managed to fry one on a recent mission.

Photos:

On the Road (there and back)

• by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

At Econo Lodge

• by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

At Dinner(s)

• by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ
• by Marty Griffin, WA0GEH

At the Symposium

• by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ
• by Marty Griffin, WA0GEH

Flight Day

by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

• Launch Site
• Recovery Part 1
• Recovery Part 2

by Marty Griffin, WA0GEH

• EOSS activities at Launch Site
• Other Groups at Launch Site
• At the Recovery Site

Later that Day
by Rick von Glahn, N0KKZ

• Lunch at Zelda's (The Hayloft)
• A visit to the Union Pacific Railroad Museum
• Rick's Place - a restaurant on the Missouri river. Mostly we walked around the river's bank.

Videos:

Working on it

Data:

Plain Text Files

• Log of 144.360 as heard aboard N0KKZ-7 while we tracked EOSS-092
• Findu.com log of AE0SS-11
• AE0SS-11's KPC3 log of the GPGGA strings transmitted. Annotated by Mike Manes
• Combined log of all of the above showing AE0SS-11 only
• Nice log of GPSL2005 by W9KAO

Ascii Delimited Spread Sheet file

• eoss092_Flight_Data.csv - EOSS's data only

Charting

• Steve Osborne's KC0YA Charts