Edge of Space Sciences

 One 1500g balloon was launched from VFW Post 7945, Thornton, CO and successful recovery achieved in north Adams County. A detailed summary of the flight will follow soon.    EOSS member mileage reimbursement submission here

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.

May 10, 2025

Two balloons were launched and payloads recovered successfully.

EOSS-376, a 1500g latex balloon carrying an exempt payload of CubeSats for DSST Cedar High School students was launched from the Limon Softball Fields at 6:55 a.m. It reached an altitidue of 92500 feet before burst, and its parachute carried the payloads to landing near Colorado State Highway 71 and County Road 2K in Lincoln County, about 23 miles south of Limon, CO.

Summary:

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

A beautiful morning a few light clouds and a big moon.

We launched 2 balloons on April 12, 2025, 373H @ 6:45am with MSU payloads and 372L @ 7:08 am with Littleton EPIC Payloads. Both balloons headed towards Arriba/Flagler CO reaching over 90,000ft.

373 landed closer to Arriba W of hw 63 and S of 3Z.  372 landed north of Flagler at the corner of CR 6 and FF.

Two 3000g non-exempt balloons were launched from Deer Trail Colorado on Sunday April 6, 2025 carrying student payloads for the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. The balloon flights proceeded as follows: 

One 2000g non-exempt balloon was  launched on Sunday, March 23, 2025 from Deer Trail, Colorado, one day after launch was postponed due to weather (cloud cover greater than fifty percent and ground winds 10 mph or greater).  Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the balloon carried experiments representing efforts of approximate

Two 1500g exempt balloons were launched on Saturday February 1, 2025 from Deer Trail, Colorado. This flight was a twice-delayed (weather) launch of student-built payloads from Colordado Space Grant Consortium supported schools throughout Colorado. The balloons flew as follows (prelim data from KC0RPS' log):

On Saturday, December 7, 2024, two 3000g Heavy balloons were launched from Deer Trail, Colorado.