Launching High-Altitude Balloon Carrying APRS Sunday

Several local schools here in Nashua, NH have been working with the Nashua Area Radio Society on a STEM learning project to launch a High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) this weekend. Our HAB will be carrying a 2m ARPS transmitter and you can track it using aprsi.fi. We will be flying using the callsign N1FD-11. We plan to launch our balloon between 14:30 z and 15:30 z on Sunday, June 3rd from Hollis, NH USA. You can read more about our HAB and how to track it here. The image above was taken from our HAB during a previous flight.



The video above contains highlights from our first two HAB launches. We are planning to live stream video from our HAB launch and recovery on Sunday to the Nashua Area Radio Society Facebook page.

We hope that folks here on qrz.com will join us via aprs.fi and our Facebook page to share our HAB launch experience.

73,

Fred, AB1OC
President, Nashua Area Radio Society

 

Thanks for posting the video! Fun to watch and well made. Also done by the students?

 

Hi Don,

We collect video from students, parents, teachers, and friends then we combine it with the balloon video and APRS shots to create a final video.

Fred, AB1OC

 

Fun to watch. Thanks.

Mark N5RFX

 

What a wonderful learning experience for everyone involved; students, parents, teachers, hams, everyone! Lots of learning experiences for everyone. GREAT job on the launch, tracking, recovery and video editing! Thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks, everyone for the nice comments about our High-Altitude Balloon project. Our Balloon was launch this morning around 10:30 am ET and it flew to over 114,000 ft. We recovered out HAB and we're busy processing the data and video captured by the balloon.

73,

Fred, AB1OC

 

Fred, I am looking forward to seeing you latest video - 114K altitude is no small feat.

Don//KL7KN

 

Beautiful to see the previous video ~ will come back for the one yesterday
Cheers, Jan ~ now in Michigan instead of Maine ~

 

We've posted a picture of the students just before they launched their balloon along with a link to a post about our flight on our website. You can take a look at the pictures and read the post here. We have lots of great pictures and video including some taken from the balloon in flight! Our first priority is to prepare the atmospheric and flight data captured by our balloon for analysis by our students later this week. Once this is done, we'll work on a flight video and make some more pictures of the launch and recovery. We'll post these here as they are available.

Thank again to everyone's nice comments about our project. We appreciate your kind words.

73,

Fred, AB1OC

 

Great project & video. Do you happen to have the footage as the payload fell, or is it to choppy/dizzying to include here?

73, KD0KZE / Paul

 

We encountered extremely cold temperatures on the ascent (-73 F) and this shut off the cameras at about 42,000 ft. We'll post the launch and ascent video when we have a chance to edit it.

73,

Fred, AB1OC

 

A first edit of the flight video from HAB-3 is available on our homepage at https://www.n1fd.org. Check it out!

 

wonderful job!!! our school in Orford,nh did this 2 years ago with the twin state radio club.theirs went up to about 110,00 ft before it burst.

 

Thank you! Glad to hear about your successful flight in Orford, NH!

 

"Into Thin Air"

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo