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.
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.