Last night after sunset I did some stargazing. Lo and behold about 10 degrees to the right of Venus was another and equally bright star. At first I assumed it was a an airplane, but noticed that after

We have commitments for GPSL until 2023. Amazing how this is conference is still goong strong after 17 years. Here's the breakdown. 2019: PENS in Pella, IA 2020: NSTAR in Omaha, NE 2021: Bill Brown in

Paul KD4STH and I are looking at doing a launch from the Nebraska Star Party on August 7 from south of Valentine, NE. The region is fairly devoid of roads, and much more populated with cattle and roug

Hi I'm building a tracker using a Ublox Neo 6m module from eBay (of course). My module has an adhesive "thing" on the feedline about half way down. This "thing" is fine metal mesh and is connected to

For those of you who have flown promotional items in the foreground of your cameras, do you have any tips or suggestions? I have a cut-out cardboard figure to fly into space, and am just wondering wha

This was the payload that stayed on the ground at GPSL 2018. It was very hazy in CA yesterday due to the fires, so the images are not that great. We did attain our highest burst so far, 110,194 feet.

Hey, I've misplaced the address for the Texas group. I have your HT packed up and ready to go I just need to know the address. But I'll be darned if I can find that email. Thanks

Our Civil Air Patrol unit in Oklahoma is trying to organize a high altitude balloon launch for its cadets. We are trying to accomplish the following goals for the equipment: 1. APRS position reporting

I think wveryone will like the title picture for my first flight at GPSL. It's at, http://nearsys.com/arhab/flightdata/2018/h/index.htm Especially Jerry.

I've uploaded a two minute clip to my YouTube channel of a balloon burst at 95,900 feet. This carry recorded a sign with Mr. Potato Head, NearSys, and GPSL 2018 logo. Here's the link, https://youtu.be

At conferences, we need to be better at staying in contact with each team. Perhaps one person should be assigned this task. Glad to see EOSS went out with a team.

Just got a call, EOSS just got back and is having dinner. They had to retrieve their payload from near Lowman on highway 21. They're all safe and sound. And probably hungry. We should be getting more

Will anyone be posting the PowerPoint presentations from the conference? Those of us who could not attend would love to see them. Chuck / KG5CA StratoCasters

Here are some screen captures from the balloon that reached 95,900 feet. These are of the Mr. Potatohead/GPSL 2018 sign. -- Dr. L. Paul Verhage Near Space Evangelist

I outfitted a stainless steel thermos with a temperature and pressure sensor plugged into a flight computer I designed for rocketry. I am attaching the graphs I created from the data. You can see the

After watching some Iridium Satellites which are sometimes called Iridium Flares because of the reflection that they give when rotating, what are the thoughts of possibly using a reflector of some typ

Has anyone posted any stills or videos from their flights yesterday?

Hank, thanks for your email about this. The GoPro pointed up in my payload box captured the moment. Looking at it, I'm still not sure what happened. Here is a link to the video: line failure 6 16 18 l

The second launch site launched 5 balloons and three of them have been recovered. The first one broke loose of the parachute and took off without the tracker so we're writing that flight off. The last

I need the near space tracker Pella and Texas team callsigns. I want to get the flight path data for the balloon launch. Also, I need an address for Texas, I have your HT.