Transosonde Balloon Aerial Mapping with APRS Module and GPS Tracking

The hot air balloon is the man’s earliest attempt to take off from the ground and be able to fly. The story of human flightstarted with hot air balloons, which are lighter than air aircraft. The modern aerospace industry can still use the technology that was developed in the olden time in an attempt to fly. Today, high-altitude balloons are used in various fields ranging from reconnaissance, recreational activities to high-altitude atmospheric and near-space atmospheric researches and high-altitude measuring hardware developments. The weather balloon or high-altitude balloon is one of the earliest aeronautical inventions which generally ferry instruments/equipment to higher altitudes to measure temperature readings and map out weather patterns with the help of Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS, transmitters) or Global Positioning System (GPS) and can be tracked with the help of radio stations and radar. This technology is widely used in the meteorological department by using balloons that can send meteorological data from high atmospheric altitudes to the operators on the ground. This paper attempts to represent the construction of an aerial mapping transosonde-type balloon fitted with a GPS tracker, which was formulated in the university, and terminate with few insights into high-altitude balloons in the near-space atmospheres.