High Altitude Research Platform (HARP)
About
The goal of this project is allow interested organizations to send research into the atmosphere at low cost.
Click the button below to see the technical poster for this project presented on Bear Day in April 2021.
Get Involved
This semester, meetings are held weekly on Thursdays at 4:00pm in the lab. See you there!
Previous Launch Highlights
Feburary 8, 2020
For this launch, we partnered with the University of West Georgia to send their experiments into the stratosphere. After a flight time of roughly 3 hours, the payload landed in South Carolina. After retrieving the payload, we returned the experiments back to their designers to allow for further analysis. This flight broke several records including:
Top Speed: 120 miles per hour
Maximum Altitude: 112,000 feet (~21 miles)
The image to the right shows the payload intact after landing.
August 21, 2017
This launch was very exciting because it occured on the day of the 2017 solar eclipse. After several hours in the atmosphere, the balloon came back down and landed in a lake! Once a team of divers retrieved the payload, it was discovered that everything was intact - a testament to the build quality of the payload. Click the button below to watch the solar eclipse from the balloon:
The image to the right shows the view of the eclipse from our balloon.
