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High-Altitude
Ballooning Workshop -- August 2013
Primary
Instructor:
Dr.
James Flaten
flate001@aem.umn.edu
MN Space
Grant Consortium
U of MN
Aerospace Engineering
Department
Agenda and main
(title) slides from August 6, 2013:
Workshop
agenda
Workshop
main slides
Paul Verhage
introductory articles about high-altitude
ballooning in "Nuts and Volts"
Part 1 --
February 2004
Part 2 -- March
2004
So popular he went
back and wrote "Part 0" -- April 2004
Paper about Freshman Ballooning Seminar for ASEE
Conference, Atlanta, June 2013:
Paper
#7457 for Atlanta ASEE conference
J. Flaten general documents about ballooning
(some for another teacher workshop):
Teacher
Overview of High-altitude Ballooning
Interpreting
Graphs
from Near Space Missions
Flight
Prediction Activity
Sample data files
-- some raw, some with screenshots, some with
plots:
HOBO with
ext. temp. sensor from GL62 (raw csv file --
readable by Excel)
HOBO
with ext. temp. sensor from GL62 (analyzed, with
plots)
Accelerometer from GL62
(raw csv file -- readable by Excel)
Accelerometer
from GL62 (analyzed, with plots)
aprs
tracking data from GL63A (screenshot and raw
data from internet (aprs.fi))
aprs
tracking data from GL63A (data scrubbed,
analyzed, with plots)
aprs
tracking data from GL63A (3-D version, readable
by Google Earth)
aprs
tracking data from GL63A&B (comparison
screenshot from Google Earth)
PocketFinder
tracking from GL61 (screenshots)
StratoSAT tracking
and command pod data (no zigbees) from GL61 (raw
csv file -- readable by Excel)
StratoSAT
tracking and command pod data (no zigbees) from
GL61 (analyzed, with plots)
List of materials
and vendors (text) and spreadsheet with (some)
prices for the items we use when doing
ballooning
Ballooning
materials list (MS Word)
Ballooning
materials spreadsheet (note multiples pages)
(Excel)
Arduino Packages -- "Simple UNO", "More-complex
MEGA", and "Super UNO"
This folder
contains an introduction, Powerpoint slides and
code for the 3 Arduino packages we built, plus
Arduino libraries and sensor documentation.
Data archive for GopherLaunch 68A (small
balloon) and GL68B (big balloon):
Photos
from workshop (contributions welcome)
Photos and video from the GL68AB launches and
recoveries (contributions
welcome)
GopherLaunch 68A (small/first balloon) -- Payload Z
data archive (includes look-down video)
GopherLaunch 68B (large/second balloon -- Payload
X, Y, and camera box data archive (includes
look-out and look-up videos) |
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