Fill and Launch California Near Space Project CNSP-11 K6RPT-11 Transatlantic Balloon Flight

Fill and launch of CNSP-11 (K6RPT-11) that crossed USA and Atlantic Ocean. Launch point was San Jose, CA (Precision Tune Auto Care at hwy 85 and Almaden Expwy), landing was Mediterranean Sea about 66 miles north of Algeria. CNSP-11 makes Transcontinental Transatlantic International Flight of 6,236 miles.

Payload shown in early in video was the second payload (K6RPT-14) but K6RPT-11 looks the same. This is a basic edit, no special effects, titles, theme music, etc. but you can see overall procedure. And we had larger attendance as this was late Sunday afternoon (12-11-11), most launches are done very early morning. Thanks to Faro of Precision Tune Auto Care for providing garage for fill.

CNSP-11 makes Transcontinental Transatlantic International Flight of 6,236 miles:
http://www.californianearspaceproject.com/CNSP-11_info.html

Flight track of K6RPT-11 from APRS.fi,
http://aprs.fi/?call=a%2FK6RPT-11&_s=ib

This balloon caused much discussion on the web, following are what I've found (and many more out there as well):

Amateur balloonists conquer Atlantic
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/14/transatlantic_balloon/

Two Silicon Valley high-altitude ballooning groups vie for record
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_19547555

Forum discussion on QRZ,
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?324759-Amateur-Radio-Balloon-crosses-the...

Forum discussion on Slashdot,
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/1655245/atlantic-crossing-by-amateur-...

Enric Muriel EB6AOK has a APRS station at his home QTH on Ibiza Island, he received the last transmission from K6RPT-11 before splashdown in the Mediterranean Sea,
http://enricaok.blogspot.com/

Amateur Radio Balloon Flight Crosses Atlantic, Sets Records
http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-balloon-flight-crosses-atlantic-sets-r...

An amateur radio operator in Azores Islands picks up K6RPT-11 aprs as it flew overhead,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0GzeMTEZM4

Popular Science: Amateur Radio Balloon Flies From California to Algeria
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/amateur-radio-balloon-makes-...

Johnathan Corgan ( http://twitter.com/#!/jmcorgan ) prepared several altitude profiles of K6RPT-11:
Ascent: http://ow.ly/i/nsMG
America: http://ow.ly/i/nsMR
Europe: http://ow.ly/i/nsMY
Descent: http://ow.ly

Precision Tune Auto Care at 4954 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA(408) 266-6060 (editor's note: ok so this is a commercial plug but Faro was a big help in providing this resource to fill the balloons).

Recovery of K6RPT-12, this was the second floater (last of four launched Sunday afternoon), it came down in Indiana (it did not "crash-land"). I will upload footage of the launch later.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.306938329341153.81044.10441005626064...

There was another transcontinential/transatlantic balloon launched from southern California, callsign NG0X-2, however, it was not heard since Dec 12 23:05Z, map at
http://aprs.fi/?call=ng0x-2&mt=roadmap&z=7&timerange=172800&_...

Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning
http://www.arhab.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_Radio_High_Altitude_Ballooning

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• California
• Near
• Space
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• CNSP-11
• K6RPT-11
• Transcontinental
• Transatlantic
• Balloon
• Flight
• amateur
• ham
• radio
• aprs

[lu1dz]

Well Done...!!!

[oe1cwj]

Amazing experiment, congrats to all

Christian OE1CWJ

[hr1erl]

HR1ERL Say, A great job for APRS, unconsciously gave up one day, two days later I remembered that it was the same, when he was about Africa, I felt very inspired by what he did RON L MEADOWS K6RPT with balloon K6RPT-11. Congratulations and a big project. DESIRE THAN FIRST, to be several more. If I like to see which was used and transported inside the box.

[EA4EUN]

Very interesting video...

73! Christian EA4EUN

(Member of EA4RKU - University of Alcala Amateur Radio Club) serving as a I-Gate.