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Almost down... 2500 ft up, just north of Angier #NSL95
KD4BFP-11 2025-07-19 12:22:42 7 MPH 27° alt 2525 ft NCnearSpace K 3.89V 24.1C TF
July 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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That looks like burst!

Initially: 11:47am, 101,104 ft over the Wake/Harnett county line, just south of Fuquay

#NSL95
Wake County NC 42 - KD4BFP-11 2025-07-19 11:46:55 39 MPH 260° alt 101104 ft NCnearSpace K 3.93V 19.7C TF KD4BFP-11 2025-07-19 11:47:55 45 MPH 273° alt 100572 ft NCnearSpace K 3.93V 20.0C TF
July 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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83 kft and crossing back over the county line... #nsl95
KD4BFP-11 2025-07-19 11:32:55 39 MPH 255° alt 83813 ft NCnearSpace K 3.95V 16.7C TF
July 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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65kft, SW of Clayton ... slow drift today
KD4BFP-11 2025-07-19 11:14:55 16 MPH 304° alt 64733 ft NCnearSpace K 3.97V 17.8C TF
July 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Balloon up! 10:05 this morning

Now 35kft up over I-40 by the Johnston county line

Follow us at aprs.fi/kd4bfp-11

#NSL95
KD4BFP-11 2025-07-19 10:43:55 17 MPH 64° alt 34996 ft NCnearSpace K 4.01V 34.0C TF
July 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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One more day of Astronomy Days at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences... come out and see us y'all!
Only one club member at the booth right now ... come visit NC Near Space!
February 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Y'all.

We had NO IDEA how popular giving away little rubber ducks would be.
Our original Duckstronaut, with video of it "in space" in the background Little bitty rubber duck at the booth Half-empty box of little bitty rubber ducks
February 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Lovely day at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences ... come on out for Astronomy Days!
Some people in blue polo shirts over a cluttered table full of space pictures and computer screens
February 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Come see our booth at Astronomy Days today and tomorrow!
NC NearSpace booth at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. One of our group members is pointing at video of our duck astronaut. (The actual rubber duck is sitting on the projector.)
February 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Just for fun: Not a balloon video, but my wife said it reminded her of one of ours...

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Camera 📷 falls off airplane ✈️ and lands on pigpen 🐽
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September 29, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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Last weekend's #NSL94 flight writeup is available at

sites.google.com/ncnearspace....

Thanks for flying with us, y'all!
NC Near Space Research - NSL-94
Hot humid summer day. NSL-94 launched the morning of 14-July 2024. In the intervening two years since the last public flight, a whole new array of software and tracking had been rolled out. A n...
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July 19, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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View from altitude #NSL94
View from altitude. A thin indigo line separates the blackness of space from the haze of the earth. Below the line, clouds The view from altitude, including thunderheads in the distance
July 14, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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Recovery pictures #NSL94
Rolled right off the roof Opening the box
July 14, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Launch pictures #NSL94
Filling the balloon Releasing the balloon Balloon in flight
July 14, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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Pictures to follow. #NSL94
July 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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11:01 Successful recovery. Landed at someone's front door

Actually landed on a roof and rolled off onto their front step

#NSL94
July 14, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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#NSL94 flying as KD4BFP-11
aprs.fi map for KD4BFP-11
July 14, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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#NSL94 balloon up at 0800 on the dot
July 14, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Today was #NSL94 ... early posts didn't make it out, sorry!

To recap:
July 14, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Astronomy Days, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh, Feb. 3-4.

If you missed us today, come on down tomorrow!
February 3, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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Hello, world
February 3, 2024 at 11:14 PM