Today we conducted our post flight review. Ari, Katie, and Milo discussed what went well and what could be improved upon for the launch. Below is a pic of the board ideas. Overall impressions were that there was a lot to work on but the big metric for success, everybody was safe and payload recovered, were met.
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Saturday we have a great learning launch. Ari, Milo, and Katie did a great job of learning how to conduct a launch and recover for a high altitude balloon. We launched near LaCrosse, WA. We got on site around 10:45 a.m. and began launch activities. As this was a learning launch I set a slow pace so that the students could have a chance to absorb the volume of information being thrown at them. There was a problem with the radio system Katie was working to develop. There fore there was a delay in launch. There was a healthy wind, around 20 to 30 mph, that made determining the lift difficult. We estimated our lift at launch was 15 lbs. More that we wanted by about 7 lbs. We did use the balloon containment sheet which worked well but made lift difficult to determine. The flight followed the prediction very closely. On board we carried the PongSats from Kathryn Bonzo's 4th grade class at Moscow Charter School. There were 22 PongSats each with a small experiment designed by her 4th graders. Below you can see pictures from the post flight review we conducted with the students. Katie was totally stoked! She finally got her data transmission system to transmit some data. This was a very exciting. There's also some pics of other prelaunch activities. Milo is putting together the structure. Ari is working on the GPS system. |
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