- Launch date: 5. October 2008, 09:49 local time (CET)
- Launch area: Lustbühel, Graz, Styria, Austria
- Balloon: 2000 g sounding balloon
- Balloon size on ground: 2m, Burst diameter: 13 m
- Ballon gas: Helium, ~6 m3
- Payload mass: 2,45 kg (including parachute and radar reflector)
- Ascent velocity: 327 m/min
- Descent velocity: 400 m/min
- Burst altitude: > 31437km
- Landing time: ~12:00 local time (CET)
- Landing area: Budinci, Slovenia
- Major components:
- Instrument package: hardware for internal and external environmental data acquisition
- Launch video transmitting system (13 cm band), ATV down oriented
- Digicam for side oriented video
- High res. Camera for side oriented picture
- Automatic APRS transmitter for the 2m band
- APRS and telemetry transmitter for the 2 cm band
- GSM Track & Track System
- Biological experiment: artemia parthenogenetica eggs
- Biological experiment: 100 primeval tadpole shrimp eggs (Triops cancriformis)
Passepartout II (IIc)
5. October 2008
On the 5h of October 2008, the stratosphere balloon “Passepartout IIc” was launched successfully from our launch area at the Lustbühel in Graz, Styria, Austria.
Mission Parameter
Passepartout Flight Computer
Mission Results
- 70 minutes live ATV video, up to a high of 24km
- A horizontal video during the hole mission time
- Some hundred high res. pictures taken during the hole mission time
- Characterisation of the environment outside the capsule
- Important Characterisation of the environment inside the capsule
- Important information on the behaviour of the hardware at low temperatures, high altitudes, high dynamics and low pressure
- Correlation between GPS data and radar data
This event will be operated in cooperation with the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Österreichischer Versuchssenderverband ÖVSV and the Austrian Armed Forces.
Special Thanks to the Company Mennersdorfer for their sponsorship concerning the radarreflectors.
Fa. Mennersdorfer
Fallschirm- und Reflektorerzeugung für den Wetterdienst
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Taking from the edge of space by balloon "Passepartout 2c"
Pressure Chart
Temperature Chart
Passepartout Capsule
Final preparations IIc Launch
Passepartout 2c Launch Video
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PolAres Schedule Update
15. June 2012: Deadline Announcement of Opportunity MARS2013 25.-27. Oct. 2012: 3rd Conference on Terrestial Mars Analogues 01 - 28. February 2013: Morocco Mars Simulation
Between 01 - 28. February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum will conduct an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology, life sciences and other.
This field mission is supported by the Ibn-Battuta-Center at the University of Marrakesh, Morocco. The Austrian Space Forum now solicitates proposals to be reviewed by a selection panel. The deadline for submissions is 15. June 2012, the announcement of the successful experiments will be released on 15. July 2012.
Detail
The analysis of Mars analogue environments on Earth is of paramount importance for the interpretation of the data from past, present and future orbital and landed missions, as well as mission planning (both robotic and human). Sedimentary environments in particular attract strong interest because they can retain the palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental history of the planet and under the right conditions may harbour fossil or present life signatures.
Date: 25. - 27. October 2012
Location: Conference Centre of the Hotel Meridien N'Fis at Marrakech, Morocco Organization: European Space Agency, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, International Association of Sedimentologits, Ibn Battuta Centre, IRSPS, Universite Cadi Ayyad.
Between 01 - 28. February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum will conduct an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology, life sciences and other.
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