BOREALIS Handbook

The BOREALIS Handbook contains our guidelines and overviews of our equipment. It is available in both Adobe PDF (*.pdf) and and Microsoft Word (*.doc) formats. The handbooks has been broken up into sections to aid reading and speed up download speed. This document was last updated 13 October, 2003.

Section I: Introduction .pdf, .doc
Section II: Basic Flight Hardware.pdf, .doc
Section III: Flight Planning and Preparation.pdf, .doc
Section IV: Launch Procedures.pdf, .doc
Section V: Tracking and Recovery.pdf, .doc
Appendix A: FAR Part 101.pdf, .doc
Appendix B: Amateur (ham) radio.pdf, .doc
Appendix C: IBIS Timing Circuit Schematic.pdf, .doc
Appendix D: IBIS II.pdf, .doc
Appendix E: Forms and Checklists.pdf, .doc
Appendix F: Getting Started with the Kenwood TH-D7.pdf, .doc
Appendix G: Getting Started with the Kenwood TM-D700.pdf, .doc
Appendix H: BOREALIS Auxiliary Tracking System (BATS) .pdf, .doc

Payload Requirements

Below are links to the most recent Payload specifications (10 September, 2003) and the guidelines to the flight readiness review in Adobe PDF format. The Flight readiness review is a new policy designed to make sure payloads are ready to fly.
Payload Specifications
Payload Flight Readiness Review Requirements
Payload Initiation Conference

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