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NASA Armstrong Supports Wind Study

A NASA flight campaign aims to enable drones to land safely on rooftop hubs called vertiports for future delivery of people and goods. The campaign may also lead to improvements in weather prediction. NASA’s AEROcAST (Advanced Exploration of Reliable Operation at Low Altitudes: Meteorology, Simulation and Technology) campaign is based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research [...]

Ham radio weather balloon radiosonde hunting!

By Overlook Horizon|2022-09-05T17:08:42-04:00September 12th, 2020|Categories: Weather Balloons|Tags: amateur radio, aprs, arduino, at home science, diy project, drone, ham, ham radio, high altitude balloon, Live, lms 6, mark 2a, mark ii a, national weather service, noaa, OLHZN, outer space, Overlook Horizon, radio, radio sonde, radiosond, radiosonde, radiosonde balloon, radiosonde sdr, radiosonde tracking, raspberry pi, recovering, rs41, rs92, science project, sdr, software defined radio, space balloon, stratosphere, tracking, uav, weather, weather balloon, weather balloon gopro, weather balloons|

This was an adventure to track & recover a National Weather Service high altitude weather balloon radiosonde that was launched from Buffalo, NY. This utilized the radiosonde auto rx platform to monitor the flight positioning and locate the final flight landing location. This is what a weather balloon radiosonde recovery looks like!Discord ➡ https://discord.gg/vxnAf4THow to [...]