October Meeting Virtual.

Submitted by Rob Wright on Tue, 10/08/2024 - 15:38

Hello all, 

We will meet this Tuesday, October 8th, at 1900 hrs

The meeting will also be on Microsoft Teams environment.  

The URL for the meeting is: https://tinyurl.com/EOSSFACE2FACE

About Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS)

Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) is a Denver, Colorado based non-profit organization that promotes science and education by exploring frontiers in amateur radio and high altitude balloons. Click "Read More" for more information.

Our organization works with educators, offering valuable opportunities to enhance their students' studies of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through real, hands-on experience. We provide FAA coordination, launch, tracking and recovery of the payloads. Each year, our volunteers spend thousands of hours to enable student STEM programs to reach the Edge of Space.

EOSS-362 NDIA Flight

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Submitted by KCØRPS on Fri, 09/20/2024 - 09:56

This is one 1500g balloon sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the National Defense Industiral Association, carrying student experiments for schools across the country.

Great Plains Superlaunch - Colorado Springs - Recap

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Submitted by KCØRPS on Sun, 08/04/2024 - 17:56

One pico balloon and five high-altitude latex balloons were launched from Limon Softball Complex on Saturday, August 3, 2024.

As of August 4, 2024, the pico balloon is beaconing as WB8ELK-7 and currently floating at 43,480 ft over Midland Texas

The balloons launched as follows (see paths on picture to right):

EOSS-361 Colorado Space Grant Consortium Summer Launch - Recap

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Submitted by KCØRPS on Wed, 06/12/2024 - 15:30

One 3000g balloon was launched from the Limon Colorado Softball Complex on Saturday, August 3, 2024 and carried 11 Colorado Space Grant School's student-built payloads to approximately 99,000 feet. The balloon landed approximately one mile southeast of Rush, Colorado. This flight carried some payloads that were not flown on the canceled Spring flight in April.

EOSS member mileage reimbursement submissions at https://forms.gle/qJjy47iTHF5ywDPJ6 

EOSS-360 AIAA RMS Sponsored DSST and Wheat Ridge and Northfield Launch - Recap

Submitted by Rob Wright on Tue, 05/07/2024 - 13:43

EOSS Flight 360 was launched from Deer Trail CO  May 18, 2024 at 7:07 am reaching an altitude of over 101,000ft.

 

The students (in over 20 cars) meet in Lindon CO to await landing information.  The arrival in Lindon was shortly after burst; however we followed the decent and as the parachute and payloads came closer we scanned the sky and finally saw them floating over highway 36.

 

It was a difficult retrieval, so the EOSS team brought the payloads to the students in Lindon.

 

 

 

EOSS-358 & 359 EPIC Littleton & Colorado Space Grant Consortium Flight - Recap

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Submitted by KCØRPS on Fri, 04/26/2024 - 16:06

Summary: Two balloons were launched on Saturday, May 4 from Deer Trail Colorado.

Colorado Space Grant Consortium Spring Launch - CANCELED

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Submitted by Nancy Koos K0NKK on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 13:55
  • April 27/28 COSGC flights cancelled. New flight numbets and new flight date remain unknown at this time.
  • March 29, 2024. Updated flight plans to new flight numbers 357Lite RevA and 358Lite RevA. Old flight plans removed 

EOSS-355/356/357 Metro State University Intro2Space & CU-Boulder Gateway to Space - Recap

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Submitted by KCØRPS on Tue, 04/02/2024 - 15:43

On Sunday, 21 April 2024, three Lite (Exempt) balloons were launched from Deer Trail School in Deer Trail, Colorado.  Weather was cloudy, with a temperature of 32 degress in light Southeast winds.

EOSS-355, the first balloon, was for Metro State University Intro2Space Program, was a 3000 gram balloon launched at 0718 (ALL TIMES MDT) and ascended to 109,842 feet altitude when it released at 0847.  It landed at 0934 near Mt Pearl, CO at 38.9567 North, -102.7625 West.

EOSS-354 NDIA Flight - Recap

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Submitted by KCØRPS on Mon, 01/22/2024 - 20:19

On Sunday, March 17, 2024, one 2000 gram balloon was launched from Deer Trail Colorado carrying student payloads sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA  --  https://ndiarmc.org/ ). 

The payloads consisted  of 250 student experiments inside 3 Payload boxes.  These experiments were from schools in Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Virginia and Mississippi.

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