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There is a new white paper for the eclipse ballooning event: Eclipse Ballooning White Paper Summer 2015   Powerpoint for 1/11/17 ballooning meeting   Cutdown Assembly Using the Cutdown Iridium Satellite Tracker Making a new SIM card with RFD  RFD setup and usage (part 1, part 2) Using the Pi as a computer Video payload […]

Launch was a success! Congratulations to teams for this year’s Near-Space Balloon Competition!  This year’s participants are: Kindred High School: Team Royal Diamond   Kindred High School: Team Spatato   May-Port CG Middle & High School: Team MPCG Science Geeks   Northwood Middle School: Team Thunderstruck   Red River High School: Team Polaris   Shiloh […]

  Proposals are now being accepted for the 4th annual Near-Space Balloon Competition (NSBC).  Students design and build payloads (science/engineering experiments) to be flown on high altitude balloons that reach the stratosphere at ~100,000 feet.  That’s the edge of space! This NASA competition is open to North Dakota students grades 6-12 in teams of 3-20. […]

Early Sunday morning, while most reasonable people were fast asleep, a group of UND students were reaching for the stars! In the middle of a farmer’s field a short distance from Kempton, North Dakota, seven students and two faculty advisers launched a high altitude balloon to an altitude of 98,908 feet, approximately 1/3 of the […]

For the third year in a row, Dr. Ron Fevig has been heavily involved in the High-Altitude Student Platform (HASP) Program. Through HASP, students have an opportunity to design, build, test, and then fly scientific payloads onboard a NASA zero-pressure balloon to an altitude of 40 km. In collaboration with the University of North Florida […]