Near Space Challenge 2016
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New Mexico Space Studies and a collection of 15 schools from around the state participated in the 2016 Near Space Challenge — an inaugural event at the 45th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
During this event, students from middle and high schools from New Mexico competed in one of three competitions: The Scientific Engineering Challenge, The High Altitude Challenge and the Landing Accuracy Challenge. These events highlighted student scientific and engineering work, while allowing them to compete for awards as well as high altitude and landing accuracy records. |
The six Scientific Engineering Challenge flights were to be launched on Oct 3rd, and three High Altitude Challenge and three Landing Accuracy Challenge flights were to be launched on Oct 4th. Elementary schools were also invited to participate as part of “First Flight,” similar to the Balloon Fiesta Dawn Patrol.
Students took part in one of three competitions:
- The Scientific Engineering Challenge
- The High Altitude Challenge
- The Landing Accuracy Challenge
- “First Flight” – similar to the Balloon Fiesta Dawn Patrol.
These events highlight student scientific and engineering work, while allowing them to compete for awards as well as high altitude and landing accuracy records.
The six Scientific Engineering Challenge flights were to be launched on Oct 3. The three High Altitude Challenge and three Landing Accuracy Challenge flights were to be launched on Oct 4.
Wednesday October 5th was a backup day if weather conditions prevent a launch
2016 Near Space Challenge
Participating schools and competition category
- Monday October 3rd
- Eldorado High School (Scientific Engineering Challenge)
- Garfield Middle School (Scientific Engineering Challenge)
- Highland High School (Scientific Engineering Challenge)
- Los Lunas High School (Scientific Engineering Challenge)
- Santa Fe High School (Scientific Engineering Challenge)
- Valley High School (Scientific Engineering Challenge)
- Chelwood Elementary School (First Flight)
- Tuesday October 4th
- Ernie Pyle Middle School (Landing Accuracy Challenge)
- Washington Middle School (Landing Accuracy Challenge)
- John Adams Middle School (Landing Accuracy Challenge)
- Clovis High School (High Altitude Challenge)
- Magdalena High School (High Altitude Challenge)
- West Mesa High School (High Altitude Challenge)
- Manzano High School
- Van Buren Middle School (First Flight)
2016 Near Space Challenge Rules
2016 Near Space Challenge Results
- Scientific Engineering Challenge
- Landing Accuracy Challenge
- High Altitude Challenge
- West Mesa HS – 120,846 feet (36,834 meters) using APRS data
- Magdalena HS – 114,868 feet (35,012 meters) using on board Eagle flight recorder data
- Clovis HS – 106,345 feet (32,414 meters) using APRS data
2016 Near Space Challenge Flight Data
- All flights paths in one Google Earth plot
- Go to “Temporary Places / Near_Space_Challenge_2016” to turn individual tracks on and off.
- Google Earth plot for ALL flights (42KB KML file)
NM5SS-1 (NMSS flight 32 – Eldorado)
- Flight Path (2.9MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data (570KB text file)
- APRS.FI export data (4KB text file)
- Decoded packets (17KB text file)
- Landing Area images not available
- Stills not available
- All raw low resolution videos (953MB ZIP file)
NM5SS-2 (NMSS flight 33 – Garfield)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data not available
- APRS.FI export data (23KB text file)
- Decoded Packets (1.5MB text file)
- Recovery Area Map (800KB PNG)
- Recovery Area Photo (2.2MB PNG)
- Recovery Area (700KB PNG)
- Stills (Use slide show below to preview, click on links above for full resolution)
- GOPR0032.JPG 1.8MB JPG)
NM5SS-3 (NMSS flight 34 – Highland)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data (129 KB text file)
- APRS.FI export data (8KB text file)
- Decoded Packets not available
- Landing Area images not available
- Stills (Use slide show below to preview, click on links above for full resolution.)
GOPR0495.JPG (2MB JPG) Landing site 1 (7MB JPG) Landing site 2 (7MB JPG) Landing site 3 (7MB JPG)
- All raw low resolution videos (87MB ZIP file)
- High Resolution Video (download low res to preview)
- GOPR0496.MP4 (1.8GB MP4)
NM5SS-4 (NMSS flight 35 – Los Lunas)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data (58KB text file)
- APRS.FI export data (6KB text file)
- Decoded Packets (630KB text file)
- Landing area images not available
- Stills Use slide show below to preview, click on links above for full resolution.
Landing site 1 13MB JPG Landing site 2 13MB JPG Landing site 3 13MB JPG Landing site 4 8MB JPG Landing site 5 12MB JPG
- All raw low resolution videos (325MB ZIP file)
- High Resolution Video (download low res to preview)
G0010377 (2MB MP4) G0020378 (128MB MP4) G0070391 (256MB MP4) G0080392 (160MB MP4) G0090393 (125MB MP4) G0100394 (90MB MP4) G0110395 (1GB MP4) G0110396 (168MB MP4) G0120397 (1GB MP4) G0120398 (1GB MP4) G0120399 (1GB MP4) G0120400 (618MB MP4)
NM5SS-5 (NMSS flight 36 – Santa Fe)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data PT1 (15KB text file)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data PT2 (254KB text file)
- APRS.FI export data (8KB text file)
- Decoded Packets (47KB text file)
- Landing area images not available
- Stills Use slide show below to preview, click on links above for full resolution.
GOPR0043 (1.7MB JPG) GOPR0044 (1.7MB JPG) GOPR0100 (1.7MB JPG)
- High Resolution Video (low res preview not available)
GOPR0033 (11.8MB MP4) GOPR0039 (3.7MB MP4) GOPR0040 (4.8MB MP4) GOPR0041 (3.3MB MP4) GOPR0042 (3MB MP4) GOPR0045 (4MB MP4) GOPR0046 (1.9GB MP4) GOPR0101 (3.7MB MP4) GOPR0102 (9MB MP4) GOPR0103 (2.7MB MP4) GOPR0104 (1.6MB MP4) GOPR0105 (1.9GB MP4) GP010046 (1.9GB MP4) GP050105 (1.9GB MP4) GP060046 (1.9GB MP4) GP060105 (1.9GB MP4) GP070046 (1.7GB MP4) GP070105 (1GB MP4)
NM5SS-6 (NMSS flight 37 – Valley)
- Flight Path (2.9MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data not available
- APRS.FI export data (17KB text file)
- Decoded Packets (261KB text file)
- SPOT Recovery Data (2.6MB PNG)
- Stills not available
- Video not available
NM5SS-7 (NMSS flight 38 – Ernie Pyle)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data (367KB text file)
- APRS.FI export data (3KB text file)
- Decoded Packets (26KB text file)
- Landing area images not available
- Stills Use slide show below to preview, click on links above for full resolution.
Landing site 1 9MB JPG Landing site 2 9MB JPG Landing site 3 12MB JPG Landing site 4 14MB JPG Landing site 5 13MB JPG
NM5SS-8 (NMSS flight 39 – Washington)
- Flight Path (2.9MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data PT1 (14KB text file)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data PT2 (2MB text file)
- APRS.FI export data (11KB text file)
- Decoded packets (620KB text file)
- Recovery Area Map (770KB PNG)
- Recovery area photo (2.1MB PNG)
- Stills not available
NM5SS-9 (NMSS flight 40 – John Adams)
NOTE: As of 11/27/2016 the flight payload had not been recovered. We will post video and flight computer data once it is located and recovered.
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer data not available
- APRS.FI export data (4KB text file)
- Decoded packets (39KB text file)
- Recovery Area Map (3.4MB PNG)
- Recovery Area Photo (6.5MB PNG)
- Stills not available
- Video not available
- Landing Site Estimate (11KB XLSX file)
NM5SS-10 (NMSS flight 41 – Clovis)
- Flight Path (2.4MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data not available
- APRS.FI export data (9KB text file)
- Decoded packets (83KB text file)
- Landing area images not available
- Stills not available
- Video not available
NM5SS-11 (NMSS flight 42 – Magdalena)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data (142KB text file)
- APRS.FI Export (11KB text file)
- Decoded packets (538KB text file)
- Landing area images not available
- Stills not available
- Video not available
NM5SS-12 (NMSS flight 43 – West Mesa)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer data not available
- APRS.FI Export (8KB text file)
- Decoded packets (94KB text file)
- Spot Data (2MB PNG)
- Stills not available
- Video not available
NM5SS-13 (NMSS flight 44 – Manzano)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data (764KB text file)
- APRS.FI export data (8KB text file)
- Decoded packets (100KB text file)
- Landing area images not available
- Stills Use slide show below to preview, click on links above for full resolution.
G0010003 1.6MB JPG G0010004 1.6MB JPG G0010005 1.6MB JPG
- All raw low resolution videos (927KB ZIP file)
- High Resolution Video (download low res to preview)
GOPR0001 (7.5MB MP4) GOPR0002 (1.9GB MP4) GOPR0125 (2.7MB MP4) GOPR0126 (12.4MB MP4) GOPR0127 (6MB MP4) GOPR0128 (1.9GB MP4) GP010002 (1.9GB MP4) GP010128 (1.9GB MP4) GP020002 (177MB MP4) GP020128 (1.9GB MP4) GP030128 (1.9GB MP4) GP040128 (1.9GB MP4) GP050128 (1.9GB MP4) GP060128 (1.9GB MP4) GP070128 (755MB MP4)
NM5SS-14 (NMSS flight 45 – Chelwood)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer data not available
- APRS.FI export data (6KB text file)
- Decoded packets (64KB text file)
- Landing area images not available
- Stills not available
- Video not available
NM5SS-15 (NMSS flight 46 – Van Buren)
- Flight Path (2.8MB PNG)
- Eagle Flight Computer raw data (335KB text file)
- APRS.FI export data (7KB text file)
- Decoded packets not available
- Landing area images not available
- Google Earth Plot (3KB KMZ file)
- Stills Use slide show below to preview, click on links above for full resolution.
Landing site 1 9MB JPG Landing site 2 13MB JPG Landing site 3 11MB JPG Landing site 4 14MB JPG Landing site 5 12MB JPG Landing site 6 12MB JPG Landing site 7 12MB JPG Landing site 8 15MB JPG Landing site 9 22MB JPG Landing site 10 13MB JPG Landing site 11 14MB JPG Landing site 12 12MB
