{"id":205,"date":"2018-07-28T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/?p=205"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:14:13","slug":"back-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/2018\/07\/28\/back-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6BBQyVQ5CW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With four AirCores in hand, Jack, Bianca, Sonja, James, and Scott headed to Caldwell, KS to launch two more balloons today. We thought we were crafty taking time lapses of our launches, but some employees of KanOkla Networks, who welcomed us to set up camp in their<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_210\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210\" class=\"wp-image-210 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/1_20180725_122636_c-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/1_20180725_122636_c-1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/1_20180725_122636_c-1-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/1_20180725_122636_c-1-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/1_20180725_122636_c-1.jpg 1783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our hosts for the day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>backyard, filmed our launches from a drone!\u00a0Thanks KanOkla Networks and KanOkla Design Studio!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_212\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212\" class=\"wp-image-212 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/5_20180725_122120_c-1-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/5_20180725_122120_c-1-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/5_20180725_122120_c-1-768x907.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/5_20180725_122120_c-1-868x1024.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen and Avery sporting their new NOAA balloon-launching caps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Owen came back with his sister, Avery, to join in on the fun. We love having guest balloon launchers (and now we\u2019re hoping they\u2019ll<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_211\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-image-211 \" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/2_AveryLaunch_c-1-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/2_AveryLaunch_c-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/2_AveryLaunch_c-1.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avery sends today&#8217;s first payload off<\/p><\/div>\n<p>both develop a love for meteorology). The launches went flawlessly (check out the videos below)<\/p>\n<p>And the chases went perfectly, too.\u00a0 Bianca and Sonja only had to walk a short distance through a field to get to our first balloon\u2019s AirCores. With the second balloon\u2019s AirCores landing just a few miles away, James and Scott were able to retrieve their AirCore payload without stepping a foot off of the road. Lucky!<\/p>\n<p>Today was one of the best two-balloon launches we\u2019ve had so far with both payloads transiting almost the same trajectory and the AirCores landing really close to one another.\u00a0 This launch will give us a great comparison to the TCCON and portable EM27 FTS back at the ARM site, as well as provide comparisons between all four of our AirCores.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e6QtePkUykw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGE-r7WBxDs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With four AirCores in hand, Jack, Bianca, Sonja, James, and Scott headed to Caldwell, KS to launch two more balloons today. We thought we were crafty taking time lapses of our launches, but some employees of KanOkla Networks, who welcomed us to set up camp in their backyard, filmed our launches from a drone!\u00a0Thanks KanOkla&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/2018\/07\/28\/back-in-business\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/2018\/07\/28\/back-in-business\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-25 17:23:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}