Hackers in space

Place your notes on the hackerspace in space project here:

Here is some preliminary resources suggested by Scott Foerster:

Others attempting the project

• Wired article on MIT balloon project
• Teens in Spain attempting the project
• Canadians in space
• Cambridge University team

Useful links

• FAA regulations regarding weather balloons

• Interpretations of FAA regulations

We have all the material to launch. The problem is the jet stream predicting sites placed pickup out in the Atlantic 100 miles all fall. http://weather.uwyo.edu/polar/balloon_traj.html http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/wiki/doku.php#welcome_to_the_cu_spaceflight_wiki http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/predict/

We need to build the fm locator .... circuit. We have the camera, cell phone, weather balloons, parachute, packaging system Need to practice with the parachutes Need to work on the packaging .. right now is not water proof, have net but have not built the rope from it to the parachute I will send some students to the Node with all the stuff if you give me date and time.