I'm starting up for launch no. 6. See all the photos online at www.TheTalon.SmugMug.com/misc/space.

On Oct. 8th, we launched our 7th HAB.  It was the easiest of all the past launches and recoveries.  We even got to see in come down.  I have posted pictures.

A few years ago the only way to get pictures from Near-Space was to buy a digital camera cut it open and connect a microprocessor to take pictures every 10 seconds or so.  This would  destroy the camera and given the harsh environment of Near-Space would work half the time.  Recently I have been using HD video cameras to get images, but there is something really nice about digital pictures which you can just pull off the card and attach to an e-mail. 

 

I wanted to take digital…

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Dear friends,



BASE 41 went up came down and we brought everything home. Less than five hours and 125 miles on the vehicle for the entire trip.



Only two significant problems.



One - the 144.39 MHz APRS radio had developed some battery problem that

was not noticed during the reprogramming and recharge earlier this

week. The emergency battery pack that was quickly spliced into the

power input failed at a connector to one of the batteries… Continue

I recently found a free video editing (or Capturing) software. The software is called Video Edit Master V1.8 can be found at:



http://software.tutorialsroom.com/video-edit-master/



This software allowed me to step through the flight video intervals of "Normal Speed", 1 second and Frame by Frame. You can save individual frames as JPGs as you go along.



Here are some pictures I captured:…



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