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* [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/ Wired article on MIT balloon project] | * [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/ Wired article on MIT balloon project] | ||
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html Teens in Spain attempting the project] | * [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html Teens in Spain attempting the project] | ||
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* [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/media.php Cambridge University team] | * [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/media.php Cambridge University team] | ||
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| − | + | * [http://www.eoss.org/pubs/far_annotated.htm FAA regulations regarding weather balloons] | |
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Revision as of 16:04, 17 February 2010
Place your notes on the hackerspace in space project here:
Others attempting the project
- Wired article on MIT balloon project
- Teens in Spain attempting the project
- Canadians in space
- Cambridge University team
===Useful links
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.
