Thursday, 27 August 2015

Splashdown - Flight S4 Descends into the Norwegian Sea

The first report came in this morning at 0430Z (00:30 EDT) with a single station LA9JO reporting until 0654 when it was joined by SM0EPX/RX2. Only once did we see as many as four stations reporting, with the last one at 1130Z (07:30 EDT) heard by OH3HTI and again by SM0EPX.



The last altitude reported was 1,120 metres, down from 8000 metres. The Flight S-4 status page estimates it ditched at 1135Z after a steady descent of 920 metres per minute, just about the time I was on the repeater telling Geoff VA3GS how well it was doing.

Looking forward to the next flight.
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  1. John VE3IPS1 September 2015 at 20:11

    This is pretty incredible fun for a payload carried by a couple of party balloons

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  2. VE3NRT2 September 2015 at 14:07

    I'm looking forward to Dave VE3KCL presenting at our club meeting on November 3rd. Maybe after that we could look at replicating it or maybe doing something even a bit more ambitious. I'm sure the electronics package could do with some work, especially with respect to power consumption.

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