Bryan College Launch at East Tennessee, location to be determined based on wind pattern
December 3, 2009 all day
Bryan's weather studies class plans to launch a tethered balloon this Saturday (14 Nov) from our campus in Dayton, TN
This is in preparation for the intended launch of Bryan's third balloon on Thursday, 3 December. (APRS callsign KV1L.)
We (Bryan College) were the southernmost balloon and our balloon burst a little below 80K ft; we "saw" no other balloons. (Did anyone pick us up?) We launched from Woodbury, TN (latitude 35.8N, longitude 86.1W) and recovered near Sweetwater, TN (app…
Bryan College will be launching its second balloon as part of HALO II. The first flight was conducted byour Weather Studies class in Nov 2008, with training and assistance from StratoStar. We launched in high winds (jet stream speeds of 174 MPH; one…