[BLT] BLT-18 Launch/Burst/Landing Info

[John Maca]

For those who are interested, I've pulled the following info out of the GPS
log files I captured yesterday.

Launch
16:03:17z    29d 15.3723m    96d 09.1875m    124.3 ft  (37.9 m )

Burst
17:24:57z    29d 19.3509m    96d 16.9677m    92,685 ft / (28250.4 m)

Landing (1) - last packet received before LOS
17:50:27z    29d 21.4822m    96d 15.5698m    431.1 ft / (131.4 m)

Landing (2) - received after payload was on the ground (getting closer)
18:03:07z    29d 21.4910m    96d 15.5770m    191.3 ft / (58.3 m)

Landing (actual) - From my Garmin II+ standing underneath the payload
hanging in tree.
29d 21.489m    96d 15.581m

Summary - BLT-18 launched at 11:03 local and burst 81 minutes later at an
altitude of 92,685 feet.  Total flight time was 107 minutes.  Using the
actual data, the average ascent rate was 1144 ft/min and calculated
sea-level descent rate was ~1850 ft/min.

I'll send my log file to Andy to put on the website after I clean it up a
little bit.  My computer locked up a couple of times & I want to try and
fill in the gaps with data captured by N5EQT in EL22 (thanks Ken).

It was fun! Can't wait until BLT-19.

73 de John
AB5SS

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