Science Fair Balloon

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Science Fair Balloon

- 8th grade student Jodie Tinker wanted to launch a video camera for her science fair project

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Science Fair Balloon

- Jodie flew the Tachyon XC helmetcam on two separate missions

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Science Fair Balloon

- Jodie won 1st place in the Alabama State Science Fair in her category plus 10 additional special awards

- She plans more missions for this coming school year

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NASA Glenn BalloonSat Competition

- Four student teams from across the country participated in a three day event at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio

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NASA Glenn BalloonSat Competition

- Tours of Plumbrook station and NASA Glenn were conducted – this is one of the World’s largest vacuum chambers

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NASA Glenn BalloonSat Competition

The four team experiments included: - Bacteria cultures (2 teams)- - Thermal conductivity experiments- - Radiation effects on solid state memory

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NASA Glenn BalloonSat

Also included were NASA camera payloads and APRS by KB8PVR and WB8ELK DominoEX

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NASA Glenn BalloonSat

Our chase bus – full sized tour bus not designed for single lane gravel farm roads

The four teams outstanding in their field make a successful recovery

Corn is much easier to deal with when it’s 6 inches tall

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Makers Local 256 High Altitude balloon photo competition

Makers challenge balloon competition to take the least expensive photo from the edge of Space

Huntsville Makers club members have flown two missions so far

The most recent flight landed next to a “cathouse” (the yellow shed) where two wild cats have quite a nice setup – “Tom” is shown making a rare appearance

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Spaceport Indiana INSpace Camp

- 15 Junior and High school students- flew experiments as part of a week-

long Summer camp learning about Space and Science

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Spaceport Indiana INSpace Camp

- Canon Powershot A560’s- Flip Ultra HD camcorders- DominoEX MMT- APRS

- Student Eggstronauts carried aloft inside plastic Easter egg shells

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Spaceport Indiana INSpace Camp

- Students manned ground station telemetry and tracking stations inside the Spaceport building at the Bakalar airport in Columbus, Indiana

- APRS and Spacenear.us tracking maps were displayed on the wall

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Field Day Balloon 2010

Ozonesonde Hitchiker with a 4 ounce 8 milliwatt DominoEX22 transmitter on 144.34 MHz

Predicted landing site was forecasted to be right on top of the Huntsville Amateur Radio Club’s Field Day site

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Field Day Balloon 2010

Huntsville Amateur Radio Club members watch as the payloads parachute down directly across their field day site

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Field Day Balloon 2010

Missed landing on the HARC Field Day site by 0.75 miles

Landed right in the middle of Lady Ann Lake

Field Day location

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Field Day Balloon 2010

A conveniently placed kayak saves the day