Forecast
Date:22nd March 2016
Launch Time: 07:15
Landing Time:
Launch site: Lythe hill road, Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6603714,-2.773526,787m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=env
Landing site:
Shobston, Herefordshire
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.2643429,-2.9096669,267m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Flight duration:
Balloon type:800gm Cosmoprene
Burst Height:29927m
Payload weight:1550gm
Flight time 2hr 15 min 30 sec
Time to burst 1hr 31 min 37 sec
Time burst to landing 43 min 53 sec
Equipment: Little Bits box with thermometer circuit and Catcam. Go Pro hero 3 white plus bacpac, SPOT Messenger, SPOT trace, Cattrack GMS locator and Tractive locator. Zlog 7
Camera performance: Go Pro Hero 3 white plus bacpac 4 :- 4hr 5 min and still running
Catcam 4hr 20 min and still running
Catcam starts 6:53
Go Pro starts 7:00
Launch 7:07.30
Other equipment:
Ascent Rate:
Descent Rate:
Comments: After burst the payload got rapped around the shroud line. This caused the payload to spin intensely on descent. During descent the tether SPOT Messenger broke off the payload. The payload landed upside down and so the SPOT trace did not return the landing site location.
Tracking
SPOT location reports
ZLOG 7 data file
Flight profile (red) vs forecast (yellow)
Flight profile (red) vs forecast (yellow)
Photographs
Image from Go Pro hero 3 close to Apogee
littleBits
Thermometer
Raw data littleBits thermometer data
littleBits thermometer board and camera
Thermometer display
Temperature graph from the littleBits thermometer
Sampled temperature data from the Zlog 7 and littleBits thermometer
