Specialist Bob takes sail aboard a Maritime Service Vessel a short distance offshore at Sector Q4CLVG to launch a payload for Umbra Space Industries to gather pressure data
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bit.ly/KerBalloonProg… have contracts for both low & high altitude missions this week, with planning & prepping underway today & tomorrow
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looking to depart 1hr ago, one of the UTVs decided to not start & Bill had to help fix it. Bob staying @ KSC to remain avail for Fri mission
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Bob is spending the day helping to close out the low-alt KerBalloon probe he will take out to sea tomorrow, will transport to Umbarg today
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MSV Tongjess has left Umbarg w/Bob & rest of KB crew so they can be on station with 2nd sunrise & ready to launch not long afterwards
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Tongjess @ bit.ly/Sector_Q4CLVG - rdying launch. Low-alt balloons have thicker envelope material & can ascend in almost any Wx condition
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while sky conditions are not a factor, being at sea means water conditions are. Currently seas are within recovery safety margins
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balloon is away as of 3min ago & has already cleared horizon @ 647m, Tracking Stn has tlm signal. It will ascend to a max altitude of 16.5km
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nominal ascent, unlike high-alt balloons icing is not an issue. Chutes are armed, falling back down to 600m chute deploy takes about 2min
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Tongjess reports Bob & crew have managed to recover the payload from 1-2m seas, are heading back aboard then returning to port in Umbarg
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back at port, Bob is arranging to have the pressure data sent to Sheltered Rock where USI is based. Launch photo looking north towards KSC
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so long, August! Another productive week here at the KSA, catch up on all the happenings + add'l details via bit.ly/OpsSummary8-28…
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we've refunded USI their contract payment after confirming the data we gave them last week was corrupted. Internal investigation is underway
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investigation into corruption of barometer instrument data during a KerBalloon flight traced to faulty hardware from one of USI's suppliers
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USI will be replacing all our TDUs (the non-programmable ones) with new units for free & we have a good workaround for current units
