High altitude ballon - first launch from Republic of Moldova

Abstract

High-altitude balloons (HABs) are conventionally used to collect flight data, weather data, including pressure, inside and outside temperature,humidity,wind speeds and a lot of data needed by developers up to an altitude of at least 40 km. The scope of this project is to test the ground station systems developed at NCST, create and launch an electronic system for real-time tracking and data monitoring for a HAB. GPS data, inside and outside temperature, pressure, battery status and images caputered during the flight are saved to an on-board SD card and sent via 10mWatt transmitter to NCST Ground Stations System. Also was installed an GPS tracker thus, users are able to track the position for balloon recovery. One onboard camera capture still images throughout the three hour flight.