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Minnesota
Middle School Near Space Missions 2011 (AKA
MN-MS-NSM-2011)
(flights scheduled May 2011 and May
2012)
organized by: James Flaten, MN Space
Grant
Stack
assignments -- which 3 schools fly
together on Thursday, May 19, and on Saturday,
May 21 (weather permitting).
Thursday, May 19, 2011 Launch
Contact
-- James Flaten 651-399-2423 (cell)
Launch site: Blooming Prairie,
Minnesota (ball fields on west edge of town)
Launch time for 2 balloons: Between
9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. (if attending the
launch, try to arrive before 9:00 a.m.)
Flight: Payloads are expected to
ascend to between 80,000 and 100,000 feet,
then land 10 to 12 miles (a very short
flight!) mostly due east of the launch site
after about 2 hours.
Internet: APRS tracking data at http://aprs.fi/
(call signs are KC9QBK-11
and
KØBR-11)
and streaming video/experiment data at
(hopefully) http://vazzt.com/umnballooning/umnballooning<https://vazzt.com/umnballooning/umnballooning>
and/or
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/umn-ballooning
Saturday,
May 21, 2011 launch -- scrubbed due to
weather (see below).
Thursday,
May 19, 2011 Launch
Contact --
James Flaten 651-399-2423 (cell)
Launch
site: Faribault, Minnesota (middle
school on south edge of town, 704 17th
Street)
Launch
time for 2 balloons: Between 9:00
a.m. and 10:00 a.m. (if attending the
launch, try to arrive by 8:45 a.m.)
Flight:
Payloads
are expected to ascend to between 80,000
and 100,000 feet, then land about 22 miles
(a short flight!) mostly due east of the
launch site after about 2 hours.
Internet:
APRS
tracking data at http://aprs.fi/
(call
signs are KC9QBK-11
and
KØBR-11)
and streaming video/experiment data at
(hopefully)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/umn-ballooning
Sample
photos and video from summer 2010 teacher
workshop and balloon flight
One
of the payloads, still in flat-sat form
Balloon
inflation
(frame from a video)
Look-down
still photo shortly after launch
Look-out
still photo from 90,000 ft
Look-up
photos
(frame from a video) showing the balloon
bursting
Look-up actual
video; launch at 00:09:00, burst at 01:29:19
Walking payloads
out after cornfield landing
Student Surveys
(to be administered pre-instruction and
post-activity)
Student
STEM Attitude Survey
Student
Ballooning
Content Knowledge Survey
Data from May 2011 flights -- to be posted
here or linked from here
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