Purpose of the flight and payload description
MADS was a project carried out at LTU to develope and test a simple, cheap, low-weight, low power-consumption, small dimensions attitude determination system with possible science application. The targets of this system are CubeSats and micro-satellites. A first version of the System was tested during this stratospheric balloon flight launched from ESRANGE, Sweden. A second test was carried out several months later from the same place, but this time onboard a research rocket
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 1/27/2014 at 10:22 utc
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 1/27/2014
External references
- BLOG of the MADS project Luleå University of Technology
- List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
- MADS project page at Facebook
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