Goals
Purpose of Flight: This flight's main purpose is to drop Snowflake, an autonmous GPS guided parafoil, from an altitude of 50,000 feet. Snowflake is a project being developed by Marc Murbach, Kenny Boronowsky, and Josh Benton of NASA Ames.
Flight Goals
- Launch the entire payload on Saturday October 8th, 2011 from Benge, WA.
- Cut Snowflake away from the Vast capsule at an altitude of 50,000 feet
- Snowflake's parafoil will properly inflate, and Snowflake will head due west.
- Both payloads will be recovered on Oct. 8th.
Logistics
Weather - Expected Temperatures (deg F): 43/65
- Expected Cloud Cover: 26%
- Expected % Precipitation: 0%
- Expected Jet Stream Direction: South-East
Predicts - Predict Date: 10/7/2011 8:00PM
Vehicles - Airplane
- Pilot
- Passenger
- Silas Van Natter
- Driver 1 – Stephen Goodwin (Subaru) - 180 Miles
- Kevin Witkoe
- Mathew Guthrie
- Michael Lanier
- Driver 2 – Jacob Linddicoat (BMW) - 180 Miles
- George Korbel
- Ingrid Kooda
- Brian Kisling
- Nicholas Krenowicz
- Driver 3 - Kevin Ramus - 170 Miles
- Walter Taresh
- Carlos Gonzalez
- Nicholas Rodriguez
- Josh Van Patton
- Driver 4 - Ed Galindo - 170 Miles
- Josh Egan
- Tim Lenberg
- Silas Van Natter
- Driver 5 - Justin Postma - 212 Miles
- Brian Cheldelin
- Zachary Harker
- Jeff Osterberg
- Victor Zarate
Recovery Teams - Snowflake
- Vast
- Justin Postma
- Stephen Goodwin
- Jacob Linddicoat
Team Logistics
Comm - Lead:
- Equipment to be Flown
- Member Roles
- Concerns
C&DH - Lead:
- Equipment to be Flown
- Member Roles
- Concerns
Imaging / Science - Lead:
- Equipment to be Flown
- Member Roles
- Concerns
Structures - Lead:
- Equipment to be Flown
- Member Roles
- Concerns
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