Last update on Saturday, 27-Oct-2007 22:39:57 EDT
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The HAL5 Web site has been moved from HiWAAY to an NSS server.
Please update your HALO bookmark to "http://www.HAL5.org/HALO/".
Primary Contact: Yohon Lo
HAL5 Project HALO Program Manager
Daytime Phone: 256-544-4440
Evening Phone: 256-859-5538
E-mail Address: YohonLo@aol.com
Secondary Contact: Steve Mustaikis
HAL5 Project HALO Rocket Team Lead
Daytime Phone: 256-544-4440
Evening Phone: 256-859-5538
E-mail Address: steve@chromaddict.com
- Main Date: Spring or Summer 2006
- Times:
- Locations:
- Rocket launch site -- TBD shore or TBD boat
- Press/visitor site -- TBD
The purpose of Project HALO is to make access to space more
affordable for students, amateurs, experimenters, and researchers. It is combination
technical and educational program. The program is divided into several phases.
All phases have opportunities for student involvement at all grade levels.
- Phase 0 was for developing rocket subsystems and testing them on the ground and at high altitude.
- Phase 1 was to build the rocket and successfully launch it from a balloon.
- Phase 2 is to develop the operational capability for inexpensive and routine access to space
using rockoons.
See the Project HALO Home Page and
Project HALO Executive Summary for more details.
Project HALO Tube Launch 1 marks the first major milestone for Project HALO Phase 2, Operational
Rockoons. As such, this launch attempt represents the first test for Project HALO
to provide a capability for launching student payloads.
- Primary Goals of HALO Tube Launch 1
- Successfully launch the rocket from the Arcas-style cannon ("tube")
- Successfully track the rocket throughout its flight, as feasible
- Verify computer predictions using data transmitted from rocket
- Have the rocket exceed an altitude of 50 nautical miles (nmi)
(USA-defined “space” recognized by NASA/USAF/industry =
92.6 km = 57.5 mi)
- Benefits of Meeting Primary Goals
- Gain confidence to proceed onto Project HALO Phase 2b
- Have another success from which to approach potential donors and clients
- Secondary Goals of HALO Tube Launch 1
- Have the rocket exceed an altitude of 100 kilometers (km)
(IAF-defined “space” recognized internationally =
54.0 nmi = 62.1 mi)
- Recover the rocket
- Recover rocket electronics and payload intact
- Benefits of Meeting Secondary Goals
- Have another success from which to approach potential donors and clients
- Can place the recovered rocket in a museum (how about the Air & Space?)
- Can inspect recovered rocket for damage
- Can recover valuable electronics for future reuse
- Can deliver recovered student payload back to provider
- Can recover “space-qualified” HAL5 membership cards
- Honors of Meeting Secondary Goals
- First amateur rocket recovered from space
- First payload recovered from an amateur rocket launched into space
- First organization with truly “space-qualified” membership cards
- Potential Records from Getting into Space
- Highest altitude achieved by an amateur rocket (by any means)
- Highest altitude achieved by an amateur rocket launched from an Arcas-style cannon
- Highest altitude achieved by an hybrid-motor rocket (any organization)
- Highest altitude achieved by an amateur hybrid-motor rocket
- Least expensive rocket-to-space program, start to first flight -- (less than $ TBD)
- Least expensive rocket space mission, manufacturing and operations -- (less than $ TBD)
TBD
- TL-1 Mission Overview (graphic)
- TL-1 Launch Tube/Cannon Description (graphic)
- TL-1 Rocket Description (graphic)
- TL-1 Hybrid Motor Description (graphic)
Ad Astra per Ardua -- “To the Stars by Our Own Hands”
For more information on Project HALO, contact HALO Project Manager Yohon Lo at
(256) 658-2043 or via E-Mail at: yohonlo@knology.net.
Send queries and suggestions via E-Mail to: europa59@hotmail.com
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