{"id":10596,"date":"2015-05-17T16:36:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10596"},"modified":"2015-05-17T16:36:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:36:05","slug":"hasp-high-altitude-student-payload-brought-back-near-space-infrasound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10596","title":{"rendered":"HASP (High Altitude Student Payload) brought back near space infrasound"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0High Altitude Student Payload (HASP)<\/a>\u00a0is a high altitude balloon system<\/p>\n

designed to carry up to twelve student payloads to an altitude of about 36 kilometers with flight durations of 15 to 20 hours using a small volume, zero pressure balloon.\u00a0 It is anticipated that the payloads carried by HASP will be designed and built by students and will be used to flight-test compact satellites or prototypes and to fly other small experiments.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A launch of a HASP payload in 2013:<\/p>\n

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The program, sponsored by NASA and the Louisiana Space Consortium, seeks<\/p>\n

to foster student excitement in an aerospace career path and to help address workforce development issues in this area. HASP plans to provide a “space test platform” to encourage student research and stimulate the development of student satellite payloads and other space-engineering products.\u00a0 By getting the students involved with every aspect of the program HASP hopes to fill the gap between and student built sounding balloons and satellites, while also enhancing the technical skills and research abilities of the students.<\/em><\/p>\n

One experiment on a\u00a0flight in 2014 measured very low frequency sound waves, referred to as infrasound, at high altitudes for the first time in decades:\u00a0Eerie ‘X-Files’ Sounds Recorded From the Edge of Space\u00a0–\u00a0Discovery News<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a sampling of what they recorded:<\/p>\n