Eos V
Immersive term Atmospheric Science and Engineering weather balloon project 2023
As part of The Bay School's immersive program, "atmospheric science and engineering" students take a three-week course in which they refine their understanding of Earth's atmosphere experimentally, building and releasing weather balloon payloads to record data about different characteristics of the atmosphere. The Eos V mission flew June 5, 2024, with one balloon achieving a school-record altitude of 34 kilometers.
During this term, we also released three picoballons, one of which flew for 8 days before disappearing over the Quebec/Ontario border. The second disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico near Florida. The third was imprecisely inflated and only made it a few miles from our main launch site.
Sierra Nevada, Yosemite Valley, Mono Lake from Eos V Midnight
Flight statistics
Midnight |
Dusk |
Dawn |
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Release time |
8:31am |
8:31am |
8:31am |
Flight Duration |
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Ascent Time |
235 min |
305 min |
165 min |
Descent time |
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Distance Traveled |
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Max Ascent Rate |
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Max Altitude |
31,280m |
30,947m |
34,008m |
Lowest pressure |
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Max Descent Rate |
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Landing speed |
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