BARREL 2018 Science Campaign

payload 6A quicklook info

The second flight of the 2018 science campaign launched from near McMurdo Station, Antarctica at UT 18:48:03 09Dec2018. The flight ended at UT 04:43 on 21Feb2019, apparently due to rupture of the balloon. Links below are mostly to smaller png files; change png to pdf in the plot urls to retrieve higher resolution pdf versions.

Currents for the 3 heaters should be used only to distinguish between on/off states.

Terminate heater has been powered for 1656 minutes.

quick-look plots from 2018 McMurdo flight

altitude: all, recent
balloon track (click on image at right)
differential pressure
temperatures: all, recent
voltages/currents (solar panels): all, recent
voltages and currents (positive)
voltages and currents (negative)
x-ray counters: all recent
hourly call drops
distribution of call lengths
distribution of data gap lengths
occurrence times of gaps
hourly link throughput

Here is a text file of differential pressure values, in the format (datestamp, timestamp, latitude, longitude, altitude, pressure), with pressure value in Pascals, and altitude in km, at one minute cadence. The fill value for position data is -999.

some 24-hr fast spectra