SSI-23
| SSI-23 (Gemini) | ||||
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| Launch date | October 24th, 2015, 11:39AM PDT | |||
| Launch site | 2093 San Juan Drive, Hollister, CA | |||
| Launch coordinates | 36.84842,-121.43236 | |||
| Flight duration | 3 hours, 20 minutes | |||
| Landing coordinates | 37.08607,-119.71602 | |||
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SSI-23 Gemini was the 23rd launch of SSI Balloons and the first launch for the inexperienced all-freshman team. It was a complete success, querying kinetic and atmospheric data, logging data, powering heaters, never using them because of internal insulation, generating current with a solar panel, capturing beautiful shots with a camera, and dropping a paper plane at a specific altitude. It flew 155.10 kilometers over a course of 3 hours and 20 minutes, landing in a UC Berkeley research facility.
Pre-Launch
Payload Specifications
Launch site
We launched from a park near 2093 San Juan Drive, Hollister, CA at 11:39AM. The conditions were not to sunny or windy, providing a great start as the balloons were picked up by the easterly drafts.
The Flight
155.10 kilometers E (79°)
Debriefing
SSI-23 was a success and fulfilled all of the initial goals set out by the team.
Milestones
Gallery
33Km view 
popped balloon 
parachute deployment 
ground track 
deployment mechanism
| Balloon Launches | |
|---|---|
| 2014-15 | SSI-19 • 20 • 21 • 22 |
| 2015-16 | SSI-23(a) • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 |
| 2016-17 | 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 |
| 2017-18 | |
| 2018-19 | 83 • 86 • 87 • 90 • 91 |
| 2019-20 | 92 • 93 • 97 |
| V • E | |