TASEC-Lab, (Thermal Analysis Support and Environment Characterization Laboratory) is an instrument developed by most of the actual integrant of HERCCULES team to carry out an experiment to characterize heat transfer by convection in stratospheric balloon missions. This IDR experiment has been carried out in collaboration between the Instituto universitario de microgravedad “Ignacio Da Riva” from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid(IDR/UPM Institute) with the research group Sistemas de Tiempo Real y Arquitectura de Servicios Telemáticos (STRAST).
Under the direction of David González Bárcena, Ph.D. student from the UPM, the team consisted of twelve students participated in the team: seven Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. students (and a recent doctorate) from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio (ETSIAE); three students from the Máster Universitario en Sistemas Espaciales (MUSE), conducted by the IDR/UPM Institute, and one student of the Degree in Computer Engineering from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Informáticos.
On 2021 July 16, the TASEC-Lab experiment was launched from the León Military Airport on board a stratospheric balloon by the company B2Space, co-founded in 2016 by a former student of the ETSIAE (Valentín Canales) and whose purpose is to reach to provide reliable, flexible and low-cost access to Low Earth Orbit for small satellites that now also supports Near Space & HAPS missions.
The experiment began its flight at 6:00 in the morning. However, the preparation began at dawn, approximately from 1:00 am. At that time, the team carried out the last checks at the León Air Base facilities to verify the entire system. Three hours later, TASEC-Lab was integrated into the B2Space gondola along with another experiment from the Alfonso X el Sabio University. Two hours before launch, B2Space staff began inflating the balloon with helium, after which the balloon will be released and ascend to approximately 25 km in altitude. Part of the B2Space staff will follow the balloon from the León airport while another part will travel to the landing site.
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