UMN Ballooning Team

The MnSGC ballooning team is a group of students at the University of Minnesota who design and fly scientific payloads on stratospheric weather balloons.

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What is the University of Minnesota high-altitude ballooning team? We are a group of physics and engineering students led by Professor James Flaten who design, build, and fly scientific payloads on stratospheric weather balloons.

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We spent the day at @mnstatefair for #MNSTEMDay2018 as a part of the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium booth. Besides showcasing some of our amazing payloads, we also helped young fair-goers build and fire straw rockets!

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Opening day of the Minnesota State Fair is also #MNSTEMDay2018! We'll have an exhibit showcasing projects of our team as well as numerous other aerospace related activities. Be sure to stop by and say hello!

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Today marks one year since we took part in the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project during #Eclipse2017. In honor of the anniversary, we'll be flying today and tomorrow.

Learn more about last year's eclipse trip: https://t.co/8evPXz5zxU

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Thank you to the Osceola County Sheriff Department for recovering and taking care of our payload after it floated farther south than anticipated on our flight last Wednesday!

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An alert Osceola County Sheriff's Deputy came across this device on Olive Ave while out on patrol. To learn more about what it was and where it came from click on the link below to listen to Sheriff Weber explain.

https://t.co/xRsQT8wQ6z

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Here's a look at the P-Pod deployment system in action during GL130! The CubeSat subteam has been working to perfect this system throughout the summer.

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GL130 took flight on August 8th, from St. Peter, Minnesota. Our general ballooning stack reached a modest altitude of 91,500 feet, landing in a cornfield near Mapleton, Minnesota.

Payloads included solar panel tests, mock CubeSat, SMART, GPS testing, SWAMP, and a 360 camera.

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Exchange students from China's Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in @UMNME's summer high-power rocketry and stratospheric ballooning course will showcase their projects in a public exhibit Thursday, Aug. 9, 3-3:30 p.m., in Akerman Hall's Balas Atrium.