WindBorne Weather Balloon Launch @ The Exploratorium Sept 26
Windborne builds and flies controllable altitude balloons to collect weather data feeding an AI driven weather intellegence system. More info at https://windbornesystems.com
Gulf Induced Hydrogen Shortage Shuts Down Oakland Weather Balloon Launches
I always thought they made hydrogen in the field. This hurts forecasting. California forecasters lose ‘extremely valuable’ weather data during historic outage
SSU RF Ballooning
Written by Professor Rob Rowlands, of Sonoma State University (A final version of this article, can be found here: globehttps://ee.sonoma.edu/articles/2026/sonoma-state-engineering-students-launch-solar-powered-balloon-circles-globe ) This Spring semester, two accomplished instructors in the Engineering Department at Sonoma State University, Professor Rob Rowlands and Professor Robert (Bob) Salter, guided students in the E444L Radio Frequency Laboratory course to successfully launch…
UC Davis launches two high-altitude balloons on Picnic Day
After seeing some ground test transmissions and two partial balloon flight data sets, I had Claude.ai take a closer look at the telemetry data to see what information could be inferred. And also looked for possible sources of information for the flights. The following is some of the data about the flights, and some links…
How did the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade get their name?
Our friends at the NIBBB have the honor of first hobby club balloon getting shot down the USAF (F-22 Raptor/AIM-9X missile). The story here.
How to File a NOTAM for Launch
Filing a NOTAM: This needs to be 24 hours in advance, so we need to decide by our planned launch hour. You will need the GPS coordinates you intend to launch from, the direct of travel predicted for your flight, the start and end time in UTC, and the maximum altitude you expect to reach.…
HAB Balloon Launch this Saturday
We will be having a high altitude balloon launch this Saturday, March 14! Launch site has been finalized. Meet at 8:30am or earlier at John Henry Johnson park on W Leland Rd in Pittsburg, CA: https://maps.app.goo.gl/N5GWNN7NF6gQGF5YA . See our groups.io page for more info .
SF-HAB has acquired the vanity club call sign W2HAB!
On February 3, The FCC granted SF-HAB the vanity club call sign license W2HAB!
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