Great Plains
Super Launch
The premier High Altitude Ballooning Experience
July 9-10, 2021
About the Event
Great Plains Super Launch is the premier high altitude ballooning event in North America. Started in 2001 by Paul Verhage, this annual event will be celebrating its 21st year. Hosted in various locations around the midwest, GPSL attracts the brightest and most innovative amateur balloonists from the US and abroad.
2021 Symposium Venue
Dates
Symposium on July 9, 2021. Individual Launches: July 10, 2021
Friday July 9, 2021
14:00Z / 9:00AM (CDT)
Balloon Symposium
Venue
Online
Saturday July 10, 2021
14:00Z / 9:00AM (CDT)
Worldwide Balloon Launch
Venue
Join us in a mass-launch across the global Saturday morning, July 10th.
Event Registration
GPSL attendees are required to pre-register.
GPSL Groups.io Reflector
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 14, 2021 | 14:13 pmYes at least 3 older adults and i am not sure how many of the 5 stdents were. Jules/ kd2fou Get Outlook for Android
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 13, 2021 | 17:38 pmThe Space Sciences team has about 6-10 students, depending on exactly how you count, as they have several projects going on, and they move around so far as I can tell. As a result of previous balloon and tracking activity,[…]
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 13, 2021 | 17:09 pmMike, Fantastically great results. I very much enjoyed watching the last Zoom launch where full screen live video was broadcast of the recovery (the last and only part I saw by way of Zoom by me being late). Wished[…]
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 13, 2021 | 16:45 pmThanks. I use APRS and advocate its use at public service events when feasible.Chris-----------------------------------------From: "Michael Hojnowski" To: GPSL@groups.ioCc: Sent: Wednesday October 13 2021 12:32:59PMSubject: Re: [GPSL] Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021 Yes, I'm the advisor to the[…]
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 13, 2021 | 16:32 pmYes, I'm the advisor to the University ham club. We partnered with the Space Sciences department on this launch. The students from their team built the payload. I provided the APRS trackers. We also had some other hams who are[…]
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 13, 2021 | 16:22 pmWere hams involved in the event?-----------------------------------------From: "Michael Hojnowski" To: GPSL@groups.ioCc: Sent: Wednesday October 13 2021 9:33:49AMSubject: Re: [GPSL] Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021 The full zoom session from pre-launch through recovery is now available. It's 3 1/2[…]
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 13, 2021 | 13:30 pmThe full zoom session from pre-launch through recovery is now available. It's 3 1/2 hours with long periods of silence, but there is more chatter on the audio as we home in on the chase. For next time, I'm going[…]
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 12, 2021 | 15:59 pmHank, The zoom recording is about 9 hours long. I fired it up before I left the house at 9am and turned it off when I returned around 6pm. I'll probably edit it down to at least trim it to[…]
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Re: Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 12, 2021 | 15:18 pmhi HankI have been quietly following you guys for a good while.The video clip you share is quite impressive!Do you have more details or videos?I'm trying to put together a team at my second station (Aalborg, Denmark) for a balloon[…]
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Very Successful Cornell High Altitude Balloon Launch 10/10/2021
Great Plains Super Launch Oct 12, 2021 | 09:48 amMike,More to follow, but for now, will the Cornell balloon team be releasing the recording of the Zoom event (it was recorded for GPSL members who aren't aware of that) on youtube soon?I'm asking about all the Zoom recording where[…]
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