WGARS Weather Balloon Launch
- 07 July 2025
- John Playford
Keep your eyes to the sky (as well as this website and facebook) for the upcoming WGARS Balloon Launch. This will be a weather balloon with a payload containing APRS, a Fox, and assorted sensors and cameras. The challenge here is to track the balloon on its ascent and descent to retrieve the payload. These balloons generally rise and travel for approximately two hours. Then when reaching their critical altitude (which is determined by the pressure inside the balloon vs. the pressure outside the balloon and around 110,000 feet) they burst and parachute down for approximately an hour. Now we need to go get it!
The launch is slated for Saturday July 26th. The launch site is yet to be determined. Check back here for more details.
