EOSS Flight Archives

EOSS-319/320 Westminster HS, Evergreen HS, & Westminster Middle Schools Flight - Recap

Evergreen HS Student Photo

EOSS-319 was launched from Deer Trail Colorado on Friday, January 28, 2022 at 7:27 am and recovered southeast of Karval Colorado at N 38.592º W 103.380º.  It carried payloads from Evergreen High School and reached a maximum altitude of 96,369 ft.

EOSS-318 Colorado Space Grant Consortium DemoSats - Recap

EOSS-318 was launched from Deer Trail Colorado as a single 3000g balloon with payloads from Colorado Space Grant Consortium college.  All payloads were recovered east of Kirk Colorado.  The balloon reached  106,023 ft maximum altitude.

 

EOSS-317 Metro State University - Intro to Space - Recap


EOSS-317 at 98,218 feet. Photographs before and at burst by Tiffany Jewell

EOSS-315/316 NDIA STEM Flight & Northrup Grumman Interns - Recap

 EOSS-315 was launched at 0715 10/10/21 from Deer Trail Colorado.  The flight string included 3 payloads from the National Defense Industrial association containing experiments from school students across the country.  It reached a maximum altitude of 93,068 ft.  All payloads were recovered southwest of Lindon, CO at 39.711, -103.474.

EOSS-312/313/314 COSGC DemoSats & Ball BIRST - Recap

EOSS-312, 313 and 314 were launched from Genoa Colorado on August 1st, 2021.  All payloads from the three balloons were recovered approximately 20 miles south of Limon, Colorado.

EOSS-312 was launched at 0657 MDT, and reached a maximum altitude of 98,639 ft.

EOSS-313 was launched at 0720 MDT, and reached a maximum altitude of 98,738 ft.

EOSS-314 was launched at 0741 MDT, and reached a maximum altitude of 97,198 ft.

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EOSS-311 Northrup Grumman Space Systems Interns - Recap

A single 1500g balloon was launched at 0804 MDT on July 24, 2021 from the Limon ball fields. The balloon reached an altitude of 94,228 ft MSL and landed 16.09 miles west of the launch site, north of Matheson, Colorado near the intersection of CR149 and CR102.

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Flight Summary

EOSS-311	07/24/2021

14:04:19 UTC  Launch 	39.236256	-103.696774
15:10:56 UTC  Burst	39.226211	-103.892250  94.228 K Ft
15:52:53 UTC  Landing	39.232554	-103.997331

EOSS-310 Gateway to Space - Recap

A single 3000g balloon was launched on Sunday April 18, 2021 at 6:54am MDT with six CU Boulder Gateway to Space payloads. The balloon reported a maximum altitude of 105,741 ft (32.23 km) and the payloads landed 2.63 miles out in a field south of Arriba, Colorado at 9:02am MDT at 39.236333, -103.189722. A combination of four-wheel drive and muddy hiking (see pictures) was necessary to recover the payloads. Because of the day change, Eaton Middle School was not able to participate.

EOSS-309 Metro State University Intro to Space - Recap

A single 3000g balloon was launched on April 10, 2021 from Wiggins, Colorado.

EOSS-309 KC0D-14 Flight Stats  04/10/2021

EOSS-308 Colorado Space Grant Consortium DemoSats - Recap

A single 3000g balloon was launched at 0644 on April 3, 2021 from Deer Trail School. The balloon reached 98 kft and landed northwest of Arriba, Colorado.

Data from EOSS top payload KC0D-3 

12:44:34 UTC	Launch detected 39.607290, -104.041107
13:46:08 UTC	BURST at GPS Altitude:99,203 Ft 39.482531, -103.505146
14:18:52 UTC	Landed: 39.42215,-103.29252 Accuracy: 5Ft

Minimum Ext Temp -74 F

 

EOSS-307 NDIA STEM Flight - Recap

EOSS 307 was launched as a 3000g balloon from Deer Trail Colorado at 0730 March 20th, and all payloads were recovered approximately 2.5 miles north of Wiladel Colorado. Achieved a maximum altitude of 104,809 Ft at burst. The Photo below was taken just prior to burst.

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