White Star Balloon Meeting September 23, 2010

Highball-1 Flight
1. Launch Site
  1. EP Tom Sawyer OK w Bowman
  2. Inquire about launch at Bowman
2. Landing Zone
  1. Prohibited Areas
    1. Lexington Metro area
    2. Frankfort Metro area
    3. Louisville Metro area
    4. Ft Knox
  2. Less preferable
    1. Not within 5 miles of KY River
3. Helium Acquisition
  1. Brad working on it
4. Helium Transport
  1. Jeff's Trailer
5. Launch Crew
  1. Brad, Grace, Todd, Bill, Jim, Jose, Tim, Dan
6. PR
  1. Twiter
    1. WhiteStarBall - public info
    2. LVL1WhiteStar - Tech Data feed
  2. FaceBook is up White-Star-Balloon
7. Hardware Status
  1. Flight Computer
    1. To Do
      1. Barometer hardware fix
      2. Serial bluetooth link
      3. Software
      4. Phone software tidy
    2. Done
      1. FC PCB
      2. Battery holder
8. Payload Assembly Sunday 1PM 26th Oct
SNOX Data Analysis
1. Telemetry database
2. Header decoding
3. External data sources
4. Visualization
5. Will have a Weather team meeting with U of L prof Tim Dowling
  1. What altitude is actually fastest
LDB Preparation
1. Tools Status
  1. GPS Sim
    1. Carl is sending commercial version
    2. Gary has SNOX telemetry data converter to GPS data output
  2. Cryo Chamber
    1. Tim, Aaron, Bill P, Jose
  3. Telemetry Live Processing System
    1. Data processing
      1. Grace
  4. Web telemetry presentation
2. ATC Interaction
  1. North Atlantic Track ATC
    1. Establish a communications proposal
    2. Talk to NAT-ATCs about proposal
      1. Boston, Gander, Shanwick, Santa Maria
  2. Meeting monday after conf call
3. Flight Dynamics
  1. Ballast System
  2. Cutdown methods
4. Telemetry Radios
  1. Satellite/HF
  2. Satellite
    1. Radio Choices
    2. Data Services
    3. Cost/mo
      1. $80 ok
  3. Communications Subgroup Meeting Tues Sept 28th 7PM
  4. 6 min delay on Orbcomm relay
5. Balloon Sourcing
  1. NSC
  2. Caviezel
6. Flight Profile
  1. Research highest speed wind level
PR Handouts etc
1. Flyer for HighBall-1
Misc
1. Hive13 Interest
2. XTend Module