Deployment and Analysis of High-Altitude Pico Balloon.
As part of a Mechanical Engineering Capstone project at Southern Utah University (SUU), we successfully launched three pico helium balloons from Cedar City, Utah. The mission goal was to analyze and predict the static and dynamic behavior of the balloon throughout its ascent. Using one-dimensional t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Vol. 102; pp. 131 - 152 |
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Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
2025
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