EOSS Flight Archives

This isn't really a Recap, because the pico balloon is still flying, as of June 8, 2026 (day 263) it has made eighteen circumnavigations of the world (see map in Charts & Data).

EOSS FLIGHT 380 a 3000g balloon was launched at 7:10am Saturdat July 26, 2025 from Genoa Campground. It carried two payloads designed and built by BAE Systems Interns. Picture perfect launch with a little dance done by the last two payload handlers.  They followed instruction perfectly. Great Job. The balloon birst at 98,184ft, and landed at 39.59657, -103.46211, or County Rd 2 and County Road P. This might be the first time the land owners phone number was on the corner post of the field! It warned about hunting without written permission and gave two numbers.

GPSL launch scheduled for June 14, 2025 at 7:30am in Buhler KS was put on a weather hold. We sat in the hotel breakfast area watching the rain falling sidewise because of high winds and looking for tornadoes.  We heard from Zack that the rain would stop and the skies would clear for an 1:00 pm launch.  We headed to Buhler around 11:30am to set up.EOSS launched one 2000g balloon with our scheduled payloads and added two additional beacons with Horus binary.  With help from other teams our balloon was up and away.  We stayed at the launch site and helped other teams launch.

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Two 1500g balloons were launched with exempt payload strings on Saturday, May 3, 2025 from Limon Colorado. This was the third attempt to launch the Gateway to Space payloads, delayed by weather. All class payloads flew, but sadly some students could not attend the launch because of final exams. The balloons flew as follows