Flight #2003-3 "Zamboni-2"
Launch Date: June 30th, 2003
Monday, June 30th, 2003
Today marked the second flight of the UND Electrical Engineering Department's
_Zamboni_ microsatellite. A new team of students has taken the project over,
and wanted to fly the same satellite hardware to gain experience, and see if
some of the problems of the first flight were corrected.
The satellite bus and the balloon group APRS payload were launched on a
3000g balloon at 8:26 am central time. The signal faded from monitoring
stations in Grand Forks at around 10:40 am.
The payload was recovered from a cornfield near Hillsboro, MN, at around
3:40 pm. A malfunctioning GPS receiver in the chase truck caused a delay
in actually locating the payload.
The Zamboni satellite survived the flight and worked very well, taking
pictures until its memory was used up. The EE students were very happy
with the flight and their hardware.
Maximum altitude was over 90K feet
[Flight images] - as recorded by the EE digital camera.
(GPS log).
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