{"id":362,"date":"2014-08-02T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=362"},"modified":"2014-08-03T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T23:52:17","slug":"ps-15-mel-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"PS-15 MEL-NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

PS-15 is a last minute release from Melbourne, with predicted path to NZ.<\/p>\n

This is a non-solar payload, and APRS only.<\/p>\n

10mW TX, APRS on 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-9
\nWill switchover to NZ APRS frequency 144.575Mhz when payload is close to NZ.<\/p>\n

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Update #1, 6pm AEST<\/p>\n

PS-15 went out of range at 4:56pm AEST. <\/p>\n

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Prediction shows the balloon will arrive around 6:30am local time tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Update #1, 4:30am AEST<\/p>\n

PS-15 arrived in NZ, first packet was received at 6:07:49am local time, 100km from the shoreline at Westport, NZ.<\/p>\n

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Range to first iGate ZL2SUN-3 was 200km, after the balloon cleared the Kahurangi national park<\/p>\n

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Update #2: Last packet was received at 8:24:03am local time (6:24:03 AEST) 142km from Christchurch.<\/p>\n

Temperature was -42 degree Celsius before Sunrise, and climbed to -12 after Sunrise.<\/p>\n

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This was the fastest PS balloon trip to NZ so far, from Melbourne to NZ in 19H.
\nTotal travelled distance 2998km
\nAverage speed 157kph<\/p>\n

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PS-15 is a last minute release from Melbourne, with predicted path to NZ. This is a non-solar payload, and APRS only. 10mW TX, APRS on 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-9 Will switchover to NZ APRS frequency 144.575Mhz when payload is close to NZ. Update #1, 6pm AEST PS-15 went out of range at 4:56pm AEST. Prediction shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-nz-flight-pico-aprs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}