According to on-board temperature sensors, the environment was the coldest at 17400 meters, where the outside temperature was -41 degrees Celsius. The container’s peak altitude 34500 meters from sea level and the average speed was 55 km/h with the maximum being 122 km/h.
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On Saturday, the 27-th of June, a balloon heading towards the stratosphere will be launched by the youth of Viljandi. This is second balloon flying to the stratosphere from StratosChem team. Our first attempt failed because of the faulty balloon which bursted prematurely. The balloon has a payload containing the popular science theatre experiment Elephant’s Toothpaste. The balloon is scheduled to be launched on midday (09:00 UTC) from the Kikka golf course near Viljandi (58.397193, 25.640477 / https://goo.gl/puFvry).
The exact time of launch may change depending on the wind direction, the estimated time window for this will be around 10:00-13:00 local time).
The aim of the balloon is to reach an altitude of about 32000m and conduct the experiment at an altitude of around 30000m. The duration of the flight will be around 2-3 hours and the current estimated landing site is somewhere near Kurgja – http://goo.gl/Qe3N2C.
Throughout the entire flight, telemetric information will be broadcasted by the balloon’s container. It will be visible from StratosChem’s homepage at http://stratoschem.eu and also at http://tracker.habhub.org (flight named SCHEM).
The task of dechyphering the broadcasted information will be managed by the DI-Fldigi (HAB mode) application (go to https://ukhas.org.uk/projects:dl-fldigi to learn more about receiving signals and automatically broadcasting them to the web). The flight will be listed as an ongoing flight in the “Flights” section of the webpage when you launch the application.
Flight name: SCHEM
Frequency: 434.075 MHz (during our testing we received it at ~434.083 MHz, so expect to spend a little time fine tuning when attempting to catch the drifting signal).
RTTY, 50 baud rate, 600Hz shift (testing has proven this may vary a little), 8 bits per symbol, without parity, two stop-bits.
We sincerely hope that we can count on Your help to help us get our container back home to receive proof of our World record setting experiment! Happy hunting!
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The youth of Viljandi took the Eurovision song contest into the stratosphere just few hours before the finals!
On Saturday, the 23-rd of May, a balloon heading towards the stratosphere will be launched by the youth of Viljandi. The balloon has a payload containing the popular science theatre experiment Elephant’s Toothpaste – which goes to the Stratosphere for the first time ever!
The balloon is scheduled to be launched on midday (09:00 UTC) from the Kikka golf course near Viljandi (58.397193 25.640477 / https://goo.gl/puFvry).
The exact time of launch may change depending on the wind direction, the estimated time window for this will be around 10:00-13:00 local time).
The aim of the balloon is to reach an altitude of about 34000m and conduct the experiment at an altitude of around 30000m. The duration of the flight will be around 2-3 hours and the current estimated landing site is somewhere in the North-Eastern region of Estonia (http://puu.sh/hUz1N/082a71a02c.png).
Throughout the entire fright, telemetric information will be broadcasted by the balloon’s container. It will be visible from StratosChem’s homepage at http://stratoschem.eu and also at http://tracker.habhub.org .
The task of dechyphering the broadcasted information will be managed by the DI-Fldigi (HAB mode) application (go to https://ukhas.org.uk/projects:dl-fldigi to learn more about receiving signals and automatically broadcasting them to the web). The flight will be listed as an ongoing flight in the “Flights” section of the webpage when you launch the application.
Flight name: SCHEM
Frequency: 434.075 MHz (during our testing we received it at ~434.083 MHz, so expect to spend a little time fine tuning when attempting to catch the drifting signal).
RTTY, 50 baud rate, 600Hz shift (testing has proven this may vary a little), 8 bits per symbol, without parity, two stop-bits.
We sincerely hope that we can count on Your help to help us get our container back home to receive proof of our World record setting experiment! Happy hunting!