GPSL Agenda
Thursday Schedule
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Local Tour
Venue
Space and Rocket Museum
Meet up at the ticket counter in the main building that has the SR-71 Blackbird in front of it.
Please email Bill Brown if you are interested in the tour. If we have 15 or more the admission rate drops to $20 each from the standard $30 price.
You can arrive at a different time if you are OK with paying the full admission price.
Please email Bill Brown if you are interested in the tour. If we have 15 or more the admission rate drops to $20 each from the standard $30 price.
You can arrive at a different time if you are OK with paying the full admission price.
Skip the line by purchasing tickets online at shop.rocketcenter.com.
21:30Z / 4:30 PM (CDT)
Thursday Dinner
Venue
US Space and Rocket Museum's Davidson Center
Dinner starts after the Thursday tour at 4:30 pm in the US Space and Rocket Museum's Davidson Center. A great German food experience with a great band. Meet some of the current and retired rocket scientists who often show up to this weekly event while dining underneath a real Saturn V rocket. The dinner hours are 4:30 to 7:00 pm. Meal ticket and admission is $25. If just wanting to listen to the music and buy drinks then the admission is $5.
Friday Schedule
13:00Z / 8:00 AM (CDT)
Breakfast and Social Hour
Venue
UAH Campus
14:00Z / 9:00 AM (CDT)
Opening Remarks
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
Bill Brown, WB8ELK, Bev Teter, WB4ELK, Todd McKinney, KN4TPG
14:15Z / 9:15 AM (CDT)
Shooting down payloads with missiles and resultant new proposed legislation
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
Bill Brown, WB8ELK
15:00Z / 10:00 AM (CDT)
Sondehub balloon tracking website
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
Mark Jessop, VK5QI
15:45Z / 10:45 AM (CDT)
BREAK
Venue
UAH Campus
16:00Z / 11:00 PM (CDT)
Flying pico balloons in Antarctica
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
Todd McKinney KN4TPG
16:45Z / 11:45 PM (CDT)
Lunch Break (Approx 90 minutes)
Venue
On-your-own at a local restaurant or in the UAH Food Court.
18:15Z / 1:15 PM (CDT)
Design of a high-altitude balloon to investigate "shadow band" phenomena during solar eclipses
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
UAH Space Hardware Club Members
19:00Z / 2:00 PM (CDT)
Balloon borne HF/VHF linear translators
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
Carl Lyster, WA4ADG
19:45Z / 2:45 PM (CDT)
BREAK
Venue
Online
20:00Z / 3:00 PM (CDT)
Designated Release Of Payload (DROP): A device for efficient, save, and accurate recovery of high-altitude balloon payloads
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
Tristan Carter
20:45Z / 3:45 PM (CDT)
Live demo of the UAH Space Hardware Club Visual Orientation Control (HAVOC) payload
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
UAH Space Hardware Club Members
21:30Z / 4:30 PM (CDT)
Weather briefing and schedule of events for the Saturday morning Superlaunch event
Venue
UAH Campus
Speaker
Bill Brown, WB8ELK and Todd McKinney, KN4TPG
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday Dinner
Venue
To Be Decided
Saturday Schedule
14:00Z / 8:00 AM (CDT)
Balloon Launch
Venue
SWIRLL Parking lot across from UAH campus.