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Have you seen this one? High altitude balloons replace satellites...
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Howard Brooks Jun 21, 2009.
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Steve Spicklemire commented on Jason Krueger's blog post 'My Expirence with Near-Space Digital Camera (CHDK Hack)'
Cool! reminds me.. I hope you got our command module in the mail! ;-)
take care,
-steve
Steve Spicklemire commented on Howard Brooks's blog post 'BASE 40'
Hi Howard,
Is the APRS track still available on an APRS site? I'd love to see your actual flight path compared to the prediction.
thanks!
-steve
Susan Gavin left a comment for Steve Spicklemire
Steve the best way is to post video, have students share comments, and or share your experience in a post or discussion.
Steve Spicklemire commented on Jason Krueger's blog post 'High-Altitude Balloon Lift'
Hi Jason,
This weekend we put 2 full tanks of He into a 1200g balloon. We only measured about 13.5 lb of lift. (we had approximately 9lb of total payload so we thought we were OK.) We ended up with an ascent rate of about 550 ft/min... 2.5hr until…
Steve Spicklemire left a comment for Susan Gavin
Hi Susan,
It was great overall.. not perfect, but great. What's the best way to share our experience on the near space network?
thanks!
-steve
Susan Gavin left a comment for Steve Spicklemire
Hi Steve! Good luck with your first flight this weekend! Let us know how it goes.
Howard Brooks replied to Steve Spicklemire's discussion 'Have you seen this one? High altitude balloons replace satellites...'
Here is a good link to a government document on hydrogen safety.
http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/deepminesafety/lib/deepminesafety/training/hydrogengassafety.pdf
Slow filling of the balloon in the open air should not be a problem.
Steve Spicklemire replied to Steve Spicklemire's discussion 'Have you seen this one? High altitude balloons replace satellites...'
Great links Howard. Thanks!
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- University of Indianapolis
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- CCLI Workshop
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- At 8:00pm on September 27, 2009,
Susan Gavin said…
- Steve the best way is to post video, have students share comments, and or share your experience in a post or discussion.
- At 3:59pm on September 25, 2009,
Susan Gavin said…
- Hi Steve! Good luck with your first flight this weekend! Let us know how it goes.
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