The test of Brite-PL Ground Station was performed for the firs time on 19 November 2011 in the Space Research Center and the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The stratospheric balloon BOBAS was sent during this test. The short movie about balloon's flight is presented below.

You can see also the forerunner of balloon's flight, the photos from the previous BOBAS mission are available as well.

Agenda
10:00 The preparation to the balloon's launch.
10:30 Inflating the balloons.
11:00 Start of the balloon Bobas 6.
11:05 Start of the balloon ScopeDome Hevelius 2.
11:15 Departure of searching teams.
12:00 Backup start time of the balloon Bobas 6.
12:05 Backup start time of the balloon ScopeDome Hevelius 2.

13:00 The balloon's rupture.
13:30 The balloon's landing.
14:00 The balloon's finding.
15:00 The searching team's coming back to NCAC.
15:30 The end of event.

Informacje dla radioamatorów:

Bobas 6:
- transmitter CW 10 mW 432.360 MHz (about) SQ5FNQ-11
- transmitter AFSK 1200 bps APRS 300mW 434.775 MHz SQ5FNQ-11
- video transmitter 1W PAL 2.4 GHz (about)

ScopeDome Hevelius 2:
- transmitter AFSK 1200 bps APRS 144.800 MHz SR5FLY-11

Radio contact:
Operators also used the repeater SR5WA QRG In/Out (Chan): 431.750/439.350 MHz (R98)

Operators:
Marcin SQ5FNQ
Grzegorz SQ5FG

In Internet you could follow the position of balloons

Contact: +48 784808636