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BalloonSat

BalloonSat is a high-altitude university weather balloon project intended to lead to a student-designed satellite.

I will be flying some HF CW beacons on upcoming BalloonSat and Space Hardware Club flights at UAH.  These beacons will use a homebrewed MSP430 controller and a transmitter either homebrewed or kit-built.  Desired output power is 100-500 mW, though I may experiment with less.

I also participate in the chase and recovery of BalloonSat flights, including two flights in November 2006.

In the spring of 2006, I participated in a senior design project at the University of Alabama in Huntsville to develop a telemetry module for transmitting several channels of data over packet radio, thus allowing data recovery in the event of payload loss.

Group members were myself, Jonathan Berry (KF4MME), and Jeb Orr (KI4ROW as of 10/06), all graduates of UAH's Computer Engineering program.

Project Summary (75 KB PDF)

Project Proposal (110 KB PDF)

Project Proposal (476 KB PowerPoint)

Final Design Review (605 KB Word Document)

Final Design Review Presentation (2.24 MB PPT)

Schematic (20 KB GIF)

PCB Layout (63 KB BMP)

PCB Layout with Traces (210 KB BMP)

Parts List

Received Telemetry from ORION-1 Flight, 9 April 2006

Received Telemetry from ORION-2 Flight, 15 April 2006

News Release (26 KB Word Document)

Other Pictures

Telemetry Decoder (604 KB EXE)

Telemetry Decoder Source (8 KB CPP)

Sample Telemetry Decoder INI file

Telemetry Decoder Documentation (25 KB Word Document)

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