Workshop: Scientific Ballooning Technologies
Following on the successful format of the last four workshops, the scope of the 2023 workshop includes (but is not limited to) gondola design, experiment-wide data acquisition and control systems, attitude control systems, on-board control software both for the attitude control and for the entire experiment, on-board computer hardware, power systems, telemetry systems, and thermal design and control.
This workshop should be particularly appealing for those who are designing and building hardware, and those interested in synergies between the activities of different ballooning groups. It is intended to provide an opportunity for all hands-on ballooning practitioners, from graduate students to senior investigators, to discuss the technologies we are all using to carry out our scientific investigations.
For a better idea of the content expected at this event, please check out the previous workshops and presentations, available under the Past Events tab.
Wednesday, 5/17/2023, Times are CST | Topic / Title | |||||||
Chair: | Wednesday Morning 1 - Agency Reviews | Presenter | Affiliation | Abstract | ||||
0:50 | 8:00 | 8:50 | Breakfast | |||||
0:10 | 8:50 | 9:00 | Opening Remarks | Hanany | UMN | None | ||
0:20 | 9:00 | 9:20 | NASA Scientific Balloon Program, HQ Perspective | Hams | NASA HQ | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 9:20 | 9:40 | Updates from the NASA Balloon Program Office | Roth | BPO | Abstract Link | ||
0:15 | 9:40 | 9:55 | NASA's Balloon Working Group | Kogut | Goddard | Abstract Link | ||
0:15 | 9:55 | 10:10 | BPIRT update | Jones | Princeton | To Be Posted | ||
0:20 | 10:10 | 10:30 | Break | |||||
Chair: | Wednesday Morning 2 - Multi-Purpose Platforms | Presenter | Affiliation | Abstract | ||||
0:20 | 10:30 | 10:50 | An update of the CNES stratospheric balloon projects | Dubourg | CNES | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 10:50 | 11:10 | NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program: Leveraging Flight Tests with Commercial Flight Providers to Advance Science and Technology | deLeon |
NASA Flight Opportunities |
Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 11:10 | 11:30 | Panel (Young moderates): GHAPS (Tibor Kremic), BLAST (Erin Cox), SuperBit (Bill Jones), HASP (Chris Groppi/ASU), ESBO (Maier); Laflamme (CSA) | |||||
0:20 | 11:30 | 11:50 | ||||||
0:10 | 11:50 | 12:00 | ||||||
1:10 | 12:00 | 13:10 | Lunch Break | |||||
Chair: | Wednesday afternoon 1 - Flight Programs | Presenter | Affiliation | Abstract | ||||
0:20 | 13:10 | 13:30 | Developing GUSTO within the Explorer program | Walker | UArizona | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 13:30 | 13:50 | Developing PUEO within the Pioneer program | Vieregg | UChicago | Abstract Link | ||
0:15 | 13:50 | 14:10 | What's new in Timmins | Vincent | CSA | Abstract Link | ||
0:15 | 14:10 | 14:25 | Esrange Space Center for Scientific Balloning | Abrahamsson | SSC | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 14:25 | 14:45 | Opportunities for Middle to Lower Stratosphere Flights | Smith | Aerostar | Abstract Link | ||
0:30 | 14:45 | 15:15 | Break + Posters | |||||
Chair: | Wednesday afternoon 2 - Atmosphere | Presenter | Affiliation | Abstract | ||||
0:20 | 15:15 | 15:35 | Polar Mesospheric Clouds - potential problems and opportunities for polar balloon experiments | Kjellstrand | ASU | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 15:35 | 15:55 | Radiative Consideration of Earth’s Stratosphere Modeled with MODTRAN and SAMM | Corlies | Spectral Sciences | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 15:55 | 16:15 | A Study on the Effects of Ambient Radiation on COTS Balloon-borne Instrumentation | Romualdez | StarSpec | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 16:15 | 16:35 | The effects of atmospheric scattering on balloon-borne X-ray/gamma-ray observations | Shih | Goddard | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 16:35 | 16:55 | An update on a balloon Trajectory Control System (TCS) for NASA standard balloons | Yoder | BPO | Abstract Link | ||
0:40 | 16:55 | 17:35 | Summary + Discussion (Moderator: Kierans) |