MECSAT

Medgar Evers College, City University of New York

Falcon 1—9/25/04

Description

 

This launch was from Schroon Lake, New York. The purpose was to test our ability to track through central Vermont. Our launch host was the Blue Ridge Motel and by coincidence we launched the same day as the Adirondacks Hot Air Balloon Festival. We cleared our launch with the festival managers to insure that we wouldn't interfere with any of their manned balloons.  The launch was a personal-best, the balloon reached an altitude of just over 100,000 feet before burst.  This would have been a perfect launch had it not been for the “Beware of Bull” sign between us and our payloads. We left our radio to the bulls.

 

Launch Information

         Launch Date: 9/25/2004

         Launch Site: Blue Ridge Motel, Schroon

               Lake, NY

         Launch Coordinates: 43.925,-73.7426

         Elevation: 927 feet

         Balloon: Kaysam 1200 gram

         Ascent rate: ~1400 feet/min

         Burst Altitude: Last report before descent

                was 100,440 feet

         Callsign: KC2NAZ-11

 

Payloads

         Communications only:

         Vertex VX-150, TinyTrak3 and Garmin 18-

                  LVC GPS receiver
          Frequency: 144.39Mhz