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Trajectory prediction and optimization of the ballast for the Gordon Bennett gas balloon race 2019

For the 6th time a team composed of meteorologists, gas balloons specialists and engineers from the HEIA-FR have worked together as the race head quarter of the swiss team of Laurent Scyboz and Nicolas Tièche for the Gordon Bennet race 2019. Members of FRISAM who have developped mathematical models of the balloons dynamics and trajectory predictions where part of the scientific team. This year the race started in Montbéliard (France). The Swiss team won the competition with a traveled distance of 1 774 km up to the Black sea in Romania .

Gas balloons before the start at the Gordon Bennett 2019 in Montbéliard.
Gas balloons before the start at the Gordon Bennett 2019 in Montbéliard.
Final position of the Swiss team at the Black sea (Source La liberté).
Final position of the Swiss team at the Black sea (Source La liberté).