Welcome to the SSCL
News and Upcoming Events
Congratulations to the HABET team for breaking their altitude record. The highest we had flown a balloon was 118,352 feet ASL. On September 5th, HABET Flight L-100-D achieved 121,793 feet ASL. Nationwide this now puts in having the 5th highest altitude achieved with High Altitude Balloons.
On that same day, the HABET team also flew a second flight, HABET Flight LX-120-A, that recorded video at 720p resolution at 60 frames per second and took digital photos with a 6 megapixel camera. This was a test of the hardware that will be used to obtain high quality still photographs and video. The test was very successful and photographs and video were taken up to 93,000 feet. The pictures can be found the Media Gallery under Mission 120. Video from the flight should be posted soon.
Upcoming Events
The next HABET Flight scheduled is L-112-B. The flight should be launched in November. As soon as more details come about, we will post and twitter about it.
Welcome to the new website for the Space Systems and Controls Lab (SSCL) at Iowa State University. This website contains information on the various projects that we do here in the SSCL. From sea to space, our lab has built and tested various platforms for both academic and scientific missions. We have a long history of carrying out a large variety of missions as well as supporting the academic needs of our students.
Please use the Main Menu bar to the left for navigating our website. Please be sure to check out our Media Gallery for photos, videos and audio files. Enjoy your visit to our website.
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, oh my!
The SSCL is now on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the Near Space Network.
Join us over in Facebook at our Facebook group.
We plan to Twitter on some of our activities and HABET missions as well. For the very latest, follow us on Twitter
We have a large collection of videos, and we have been uploading more every week to YouTube. We have a number of videos from our HABET flights, LABET, and other projects in the SSCL
The Near Space Networks is a new social network just for high altitude balloon flights. Please join us in our group over there.
