High Altitude Balloon Launch on August 7, 2011 CNSP-08   K6RPT-11 Maximum Altitude 129,622   The CNSP-08 (K6RPT-11) flight reached a maximum altitude of 129,622 Stratofox Aerospace Tracking & Recovery Team did an outstanding job recovering CNSP-08. They had teams on the ground and in the air.  (see picture below)   CNSP-08                              ...

High Altitude Balloon Launch on March 11, 2011 CNSP-07   K6RPT-8 Maximum Altitude 128,047      The CNSP-07 (K6RPT-8) flight reached a maximum altitude of 128,047 The payload was recovered.   Flight Information High Altitude Attempt  APRS Tracking on 144.39   CNSP-07                                            ...

High Altitude Balloon Launch on February 12, 2011 CNSP-06   K6RPT-15 Last Reported Altitude 110,889     The flight was doing well until it reached an altitude of 54,475 feet. Then we stopped receiving APRS packets at 60 second intervals. We only received two more packets after that, 75,465 and 110,889. We believe the APRS tracker had a defective antenna. The Stratofox tracking & recovery teams were in the Central Valley for...

 High Altitude Balloon Launch on February 5, 2011 CNSP-05   K6RPT-13 Maximum Altitude 107,116     When we rolled the out the 3000 gram balloon to start the fill, we noticed it had very inconsistent color and translucent areas with one large patch that looked like it was thicker and less translucent. We were very concerned about the quality of the balloon. Our new system for weighing the balloon’s free lift worked well, and we...

High Altitude Balloon Launch on November 18, 2010 CNSP-04   K6RPT-11 Maximum Altitude 115,505     K6RPT-11 never reached burst altitude and flew across three western states, landing in Utah. In our efforts to reach high altitude, we have learned how to build a very high altitude floater. In the future we plan to use this high altitude floater again, to see how far we can fly it across the United States.   Flight Information...