[LeArc] Snox IV Status Update

[Mark A Garrett]

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From: Mike Coffey <mike at mcoffey.com> 
To: GPSL at yahoogroups.com; UTARC general chat list <chat at utarc.org>; balloon_sked at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:20:26 AM 
Subject: [GPSL] Snox IV Status Update 






Hello all, 

UTARC is excited to announce that Snox IV has comfortably broken the 
earlier great circle distance record of 1411 miles, set by Bill Brown in 
2005. At 16:01 UTC (12:01 EDT), the balloon had traveled 1511 miles due 
east of the launch site, and was continuing to track in that direction 
at well over 100 MPH. The DTRC network is continuing to send back 
reports, and 142 stations have sent data. The experimental dashboard 
that we are using for this flight has been performing fairly well, 
considering the load on our servers: more than 3 million file accesses 
in the last 12 hours! Ballast is being used at a higher rate than 
expected, but we still have 3/4 of our tank left. Feel free to drop by 
our site at spiritofknoxville. com for more details. 

73, 
Mike 
KJ4Z 
Snox Balloon Team