ORB-19
 Post Flight & Pic's




FLIGHT BRIEF


ORB-19 was launched at 0903 CDT. No one left
the launch site until after burst. The balloon
was in plain site all the way up to burst at
95,082 feet. I was videoing it up to 30 seconds
before that and missed it! BUMMER! :(

It then descended, passed right over us in
Skiatook at 1,000 feet and landed in the
drive-through lane of Carl's JR. Other than
a couple crunched corners on the tracker
and camera capsules, all was fine.

We all had lunch at a Deli in Skiatook.

David and I returned to my QTH where we down-loaded
the data from the ozone monitor. It recorded data
every 10 seconds from launch through 75,000 feet,
at which time the batteries were drained.
This was expected and was not a problem.
David was very pleased!

I have downloaded 36 pics from the horizontal
camera and 27 pics from the vertical camera.

Thanks to the peanut lady who made the rounds.
to those of us in need of refreshments.
Lying on our backs for 2 hours watching
a balloon was tough duty! ;)


Thanks to all who participated!

and

A special thanks to Mike & Mitzie
for providing us, once again, with
a great launch site!

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As I get the info together regarding
the flight, I will get it posted here!


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Check back often!
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73
Harry


Observations from tul on 10/08/2005

TIME

TEMP

DEW POINT

PRES

WIND DIR

WIND SPD

WIND GUST

VIS

CEILING

06:53 GMT

48.0°

37.0°

1018.2 mb

NE

9 MPH

 

10 mi

>12000ft

07:53 GMT

46.0°

37.9°

1017.8 mb

NE

6 MPH

 

10 mi

>12000ft

08:53 GMT

45.0°

37.9°

1017.8 mb

NE

6 MPH

 

10 mi

>12000ft

09:53 GMT

44.1°

37.9°

1017.8 mb

NNE

5 MPH

 

10 mi

>12000ft

10:53 GMT

41.0°

37.9°

1018.0 mb

NW

3 MPH

 

10 mi

>12000ft

11:53 GMT

39.0°

37.0°

1018.4 mb

N

6 MPH

 

10 mi

>12000ft


Ozone recap by David Williams (AJ5W).

http://djw.freeservers.com/research/ozonesonde.htm



ORB-19 Flight Path
Looks like a missed approach!
:)



ORB-19 picture taken in flight at 92,000 feet.
I overlaid the actual position reports.



Thanks to David (AJ5W) for the details to the following picture.

 That appears to be Robert S Kerr Lake in Sequoyah/Le Flore Cos.
Ft.Gibson Lake is visible underneath the near cloud shield,
Greenleaf Lake is just above the lake, the shiny river is the Arkansas,
the Canadian River is visible just past the Arkansas (also flowing into Robert S Kerr),
and the eastern tip of Lake Eufaula (along the Canadian) is visible on the far right
portion of the picture. Thus, the camera was pointed SE when this picture was taken at
 approximately 85,000 feet!.


ORB-19 Ascent / Descent

   UTC   ALT-FT DIR MPH  FPM
-------- ------ --- --- -----
14:10:31  5,590 155  8   +919
14:15:30 10,137 344  2   +927
14:21:30 15,412 259 20   +883
14:26:29 20,057 272 22   +817
14:35:28 25,480 252 22   +656
14:41:28 30,060 261 16   +541
14:50:27 35,211  19 12   +584
14:58:26 40,191  67 23   +607
15:06:25 45,266  92 30   +676
15:14:25 50,506  70 18   +696
15:21:24 55,246  35 11   +682
15:28:24 60,194  13  6   +735
15:35:23 65,416   3 13   +767
15:42:23 70,770 190 11   +816
15:48:22 75,393 303 12   +801
15:54:22 80,183 237 10   +788
16:01:21 85,822 310  7   +837
16:07:21 90,566  43  2   +791
16:13:20 95,083  79  8   +754
16:14:20 86,537 328 11  -8546
16:15:20 74,743 279 11 -11794
16:17:20 59,977  51 11  -6473
16:19:20 49,810  49 18  -4741
16:21:20 41,706  69 18  -3914
16:24:19 31,605 324 13  -3159
16:28:19 20,805 270 28  -2566
16:31:19 14,077 241  7  -2280
16:33:19 10,343 192 10  -1736
16:36:18  4,566 172 12  -1739
16:38:18  1,243 191  7  -1627


One more knot & a little more of Bill's red duct tape! :)



Final Prep!



Launch 0905 CDT
Top-Tracker / Middle-Ozone Monitor / Bottom-cameras



Hoo Hum! Just laying around watching the balloon for burst.
What a view!!!

Balloon is 4.6 miles down range and at 94,000 feet (17.8 miles) in altitude.
(Sony digital 8 camcorder - full optical zoom - handheld at launch site.)


Landing!
Anyone for Carl's Jr. takeout?



David (AJ5W) is happy to get the ozone monitor back.



All packed up and ready to go eat.


ORB-19 OZONE DATA

Column 1 is the log number
Column 2 is ozone (in ppb)
Column 3 is cell temperature (in C)
Column 4 is cell pressure (in mb)
The rest are the optional data inputs.

Data was logged every 10 seconds.
(See David's link above for more info)
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$Logged Data

$313,1,38.2,935.9,12/07/05,09:04:58 Launch
$342,7,39.2,796.9,12/07/05,09:09:48 5,000 ft
$375,7,40.6,657.6,12/07/05,09:15:18 10,000 ft
$411,9,42.1,535.5,12/07/05,09:21:18 15,000 ft
$442,336,43.2,440.4,12/07/05,09:26:28 20,000 ft
$492,86,44.5,356.8,12/07/05,09:34:48 25,000 ft
$532,114,45.1,285.4,12/07/05,09:41:28 30,000 ft
$585,123,45.3,224.9,12/07/05,09:50:18 35,000 ft
$631,212,45.1,178.4,12/07/05,09:57:58 40,000 ft
$680,-4816,44.6,137.7,12/07/05,10:06:08 45,000 ft
$724,18,43.7,120.0,12/07/05,10:13:28 50,000 ft
$770,24,42.5,119.8,12/07/05,10:21:08 55,000 ft
$812,52,41.3,119.8,12/07/05,10:28:08 60,000 ft
$852,105,40.1,119.6,12/07/05,10:34:48 65,000 ft
$885,142,39.1,119.6,12/07/05,10:40:18 70,000 ft
$930,124,38.4,119.6,12/07/05,10:47:48 75,500 ft

$End Logged Data




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