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LASA-2 Details

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LASA-2 Mission details

Ottawa River going by Hawkesbury (about the center of the picture):

Grande-ile in the St. Lawrence (lower left):

Mission Statistics:

Launch: 9:32am local (EST) from the Perth Fairgrounds
Peak altitude: 31,543m (103,488 feet)
Ascent time: 5 hours and 58 minutes
Descent time: 55 minutes
Landing: 4:25pm (EST)
Total Flight Time: 6:53
Recovery time: 5:45pm (EST)
Great-circle flight distance: 192.11km
Ascent rate: 219 ft/min initial, 436 ft/min over 45,000' altitude
Total payload weight: 670g including parachute and strings
Free lift: 225g

Chronology:

	Minutes	Flt. Time			Altitude
	into Flt.				m	ft
		h	:	mm

Launch	0	0	:	00	142	466
Golf Course Pic	5				513	1,684
Perthmore Pic	6				571	1,875
Hwy 15	57	0	:	57	4,071	13,366
Hwy 416	111	1	:	51	8,406	27,600
Stops over Hunt Club	132	2	:	12	10,576	34,725
Loop over airport	143	2	:	23	11,844	38,888
Hawkesbury Pic	188	3	:	08	17,290	56,769
Loop N towards Vars	227	3	:	47	22,686	74,486
Hwy 417	243	4	:	03	15,051	49,417
Grand Ile Pic	251	4	:	11	26,172	85,931
Last Picture (approx)	262	4	:	22	27,476	90,213
Contact lost	271	4	:	31	28,670	94,133
Contact resumed	331	5	:	31	31,325	102,850
Burst	358	5	:	58	31,543	103,566
Landing	413	6	:	53	181	594
Recovery	493	8	:	13	132	433

To explore the flight path yourself, click here.

Track:

Silliness over Ottawa:

Graph of Altitude with Time: (thanks to Robert Mazur VA3ROM for compiling this data)

Graph of upper altitude pressure and temperature with Altitude (take from weather balloon sounding at nearby Maniwaki CQ starting at 4pm the same day): (taken from http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html)

Lucky landing site - on this family's deck, when it could have been anywhere in the surrounding forest of 100' pine trees:

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