Huntsville Alabama
Great Plains
Super Launch
The premier High Altitude Ballooning Experience
June 15-17, 2023
About the Event
Great Plains Super Launch is the premier high altitude ballooning event in North America. Started in 2001 by Paul Verhage, this annual event will be celebrating its 23rd year. Hosted in various locations around the midwest, GPSL attracts the brightest and most innovative amateur balloonists from the US and abroad.
2023 Symposium Venue
Dates
Event Registration
GPSL Groups.io Reflector
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Re: Montana Balloon Aloft
Great Plains Super Launch Feb 4, 2023 | 01:58 am
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I'm sharing the most revealing picture taken today. It seems to show a superpressure balloon structure inside the white fabric which could act as a sort of "mesh" or container.
Luis E.Pacheco
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Re: Montana Balloon Aloft
Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 23:36 pmHi PatFirst I want to say how disappointed I am that I didn't know about this on Thursday when it flew virtually straight over my house in Saskatoon. Even thought it was -35, I still would have ventured outside to[…]
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Re: Montana Balloon Aloft
Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 23:26 pmKeith Kaiser, WA0̷TJT Hey, Keith, Good to see you on board here! (Been a while working with you!) My dream would be if it travels by you (if not long gone by now!) then to point a Yagi towards it[…]
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Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 23:11 pmHello Keith, Joe, Steve, Mark, Paul, Bruce, Luis, Alexi and all others who are contributing to this thread as well! Yoo guys rock! Let's gather some facts together as best we can from the news media. 1. The photo looks[…]
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Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 22:24 pmAnyone care to make a prediction path for this second one also? Joe WB9SBD On 2/3/2023 3:12 PM, trcostan wrote:
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Re: Montana Balloon Aloft
Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 21:12 pmHYSPLITs back analysis shows it coming from mainland China. Also a second one is over the Canadian Prairies near Regina about to enter the US
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Re: Montana Balloon Aloft
Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 19:49 pm
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Some British analysis using Hysplit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaxiA7529vE&t=160s
Steve G8KHW
On 03/02/2023 19:11, Joe WB9SBD wrote:
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Hy-Split, try to do a like reverse path thing?
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Re: Montana Balloon Aloft
Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 19:11 pmcan any of you that use Hy-Split, try to do a like reverse path thing? to see if you can figure where it may have come from? Joe WB9SBD On 2/3/2023 1:05 PM, Garrett, Mark wrote:
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Re: Montana Balloon Aloft
Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 19:06 pmAnother article on the balloon: https://www.yahoo.com/now/surveillance-balloon-tracked-china-142619288.html -- Mark GarrettTri States Public RadioWIUM Macomb, ILWIUW Warsaw, ILWVKC Galesburg, ILK292GR Burlington, IA
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Re: Montana Balloon Aloft
Great Plains Super Launch Feb 3, 2023 | 19:05 pmThe Chinese government has already admitted it was one of their's. The claim is that it's a meteorological balloon.
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