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Flight 2006C - 4 Nov 2006 (New Location)

Flight 2006C is postponed from 28 October 2006 due to predicted high altitude winds (and bad weather in general) to 4 November at 10:15 EDT from Wyandot County Airport (56D).
Launch Saturday, 4 Nov 2006, 10:15 EDT
Leaving NASA DEB lot : 6:30 AM
Arrive at Wyandot County Airport: 8:45

 Explorer Post 632
 Flight 2006C
Wyandot County Airport (K56D), Upper Sandusky, OH.
N 40 53.3  W 083 18.9

Present predicted path is 110 mi, bearing 99 deg, landing south of Canton, near  Waynesburg,OH

NA8SA-4  446.150 APRS Kenwood DTH7
NA8SA-5  144.34  APRS PockerTracker

Web site <http://explorersposts.grc.nasa.gov/post632>

This is principally a demonstration flight, to stimulate the students, imaginations.  We are looking for an altitude near 105kft.  We also want to re-run an experiment fro 2006A that uses water to 'heat' a payload box.  The data logger got wet on the first flight in April and lost the data. 

Payload 1:
Horizontal Film camera / Timing Circuit (~300s)
Kenwood DTH7 (446.150 APRS)
Pressure
Internal Temp
External Temperature
12 Bit HOBO data logger
Beeper
Garmin 18 GPS

Payloate W
2 Compartments
2 8Bit HOBOs, with Temp & humidity in each comparment
100 g Water & Temperature Probe

Payload 2
Garmin GPS 15 Engine
Bionics Pocket tracker  (144.34 MHz)
Digital Voice recorder
Digital Camera (Walmart 4M Pix (~$60) / Timer circuit (33s)
weights (Increase Moment of inertia to reduce? spinning)

Spectators welcome. 

-dave snyder (216)433-2217
Created by dbsnyder
Last modified 2006-11-05 06:00 PM
 

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