Penn State Wilkes-Barre has scheduled its first High Altitude Balloon Launch for the morning of Saturday May 8.
The main goal for this first flight is for faculty and students to develop the knowledge and skills to conduct launches and retrieve the payloads. A second goal is to acquire video footage of the flight from the different cameras inside the payload.
Our aim is to reach a maximum altitude of 90,000 ft.
EDIT (5/8/10): The weather conditions today placed the landing site more than 100 miles away from the launch point as the Jet Stream moved on top of Pennsylvania. This fact, together with the rain and thunderstorms around the launch date forced us to cancel the scheduled launch for today.
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