SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Low-cost Mobile Automated Sonde Launching System
Award amount
$75,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Commerce
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- YANKEE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- U54KJSNGEQN1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
We describe a radiosonde launch system that is automatic, robust, fault-tolerant, and mobile. Once loaded, for each cycle the system will automatically: 1) Determine ambient conditions, 2) power up a radiosonde, 3) tune the receiver, 4) initialize sonde communication, 5) performs pre-launch calibration, 6) start data acquisition software, 7)inflate a balloon and verify inflation, 8) release the balloon and sonde, 9) continuously capture data for duration of flight, 10) stop data capture, 11) transfer data to a central data archive, and 12) return to an idle state and prepare for the next launch.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Smokesonde: Low cost in-situ sampling of smoke and convective storm intensity supporting fire weather and incident meteorology
- Guidesonde: Targeting Meteorological Dropsonde with Optical and In-Situ Sensors
- Atmospheric Characterization for Directed Energy Applications
- STTR Phase I: Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum for Learning, NSF11-561
- Glidersonde, a Meteorological Optical Profiling Sensor
Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2023). Reported award amounts total $12,837,256. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration