AMATEURS-DE-BALLONS-SONDES: BALLON-SONDES des RADIO AMATEURS "B" de Léo M 0 XER AUTOUR DU MONDE.

vendredi 12 septembre 2014

BALLON-SONDES des RADIO AMATEURS "B" de Léo M 0 XER AUTOUR DU MONDE.

Les Tours du monde se poursuivent pour les ballons B-64 et B-66 de M 0 XER Léo.

Voir au jour le jour : http://spacenear.us/tracker/flyb.php

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Voir le site de Léo: http://www.leobodnar.com/balloons

Balloon Flight B-66 / M0XER-6 :

Self-made plastic foil envelope. 3rd of my balloons to successfully circumnavigate the Earth.

Payload weight - 11 grams.
Downlink mode - 434.500MHz USB Contestia 64/1000 and APRS on regional frequencies. 10mW transmitter.
Start time: 15th July 2014 14:17 UTC
Last known position: 14th August 2014 18:12 UTC

Payload and envelope are similar to B-64

Balloon Flight B-64 / M0XER-4, 12 July 2014

Self-made plastic foil envelope. Balloon successfully circumnavigated the Earth in 19 and a half days then went on to fly past within 9km of the North Pole and 10km of the launch site.

Significant telemetry strings:
"$$B-64,1,064229,140712,52.096,-1.0225,126,6,27,4.18,0.5*D2BF" - telemetry report after flight computer powerup
"$$B-64,20674,162750,140731,50.6904,-1.0193,12613,12,7,4.23,0.68*DA9C" - telemetry report after crossing launch site longitude 19 days later

Payload weight - 11 grams.
Downlink mode - 434.500MHz USB Contestia 64/1000 and APRS on regional frequencies. 10mW transmitter.
Start time: 12th July 2014 06:51 UTC
Last known position: ...
Live tracking: habitat and APRS

Balloon Flight B-63 / M0XER-3, 8 July 2014

Self-made plastic foil envelope. B-63 followed B-64 to successfully circumnavigate the Earth.

Payload weight - 11 grams.
Downlink mode - 434.500MHz USB Contestia 64/1000 and APRS on regional frequencies where allowed. 10mW transmitter.
Start time: 8th July 2014 06:53 UTC
Last known position: 10th August 2014 08:05 UTC
Flight time: 793 hours (33 days)
Track length: 47,430 km

Payload and envelope are similar to B-64