Archive for March, 2010
Near Space Adventure: Flight 4
by admin on Mar.24, 2010, under Technical
Project goal:
To launch a weather balloon that lifts our payload to 130,000 feet, capture still photos of the earth throughout the entire flight, and recover the payload safely back on earth.
Proposed Inventory:
3000 gram balloon – http://kaymont.com
Parachute (5 foot diameter) – http://www.the-rocketman.com/recovery.html
Payload container – to be determined
Camera – Canon A470
GPS tracking unit – http://findmespot.com/en/index.php
Altimeter – Garmin ETrex Venture HC
Hydrogen and gas bottle – http://www.airgas.com
Launch location:
Government Camp
Launch Date:
The morning of Saturday, April 10th.
Live tracking:
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0lu9nX3ZhbJbvQITqvOr9Sy8upzqmcaHj
Donations:
Thank you so much to everyone that has donated to our project. Since April 1st we have raised a total of $266. It’s extremely exciting to know that friends, family, and even complete strangers are enthusiastic about our projects. If you would still like to donate to our project, please visit our Kickstarter project page. There are incentives for donating. 
Updates:
We have ordered the new and improved Spot II GPS tracking unit.
We have ordered the 3000 gram balloon.
We are looking for a hydrogen regulator that will mate to a 200 cu ft bottle of hydrogen.
