High-Altitude Ballooning at Virginia Tech
High-Altitude Ballooning at Virginia Tech is a continuing interdisciplinary student team developing and flying scientific weather-balloon payloads. Virginia Tech documents its participation in the 2023–2024 Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, with about 30 undergraduates from aerospace, electrical, and related majors deploying balloons and student experiments including cameras, tracking units, radiation, wind, and solar-luminosity sensors; no unsupported mission result is claimed.
Identity
- Field
- High-altitude balloon systems, scientific payloads, avionics, tracking, communications, and atmospheric research
- Name
- High-Altitude Ballooning at Virginia Tech
- Region
- NA
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- High-Altitude Ballooning at Virginia Tech is a continuing interdisciplinary student team developing and flying scientific weather-balloon payloads. Virginia Tech documents its participation in the 2023–2024 Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, with about 30 undergraduates from aerospace, electrical, and related majors deploying balloons and student experiments including cameras, tracking units, radiation, wind, and solar-luminosity sensors; no unsupported mission result is claimed.
- Latitude
- 37.230785
- Location
- Longitude
- -80.434262
- University
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- Creation Time
- August 14, 2026 at 05:17:42 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 05:17:42 UTC