APRS Balloon launch today from California Bay area!
On Thursday 9 June we will be doing a high-altitude balloon launch of our prototype Phonesat spacecraft.... It will have a separate APRS VHF beacon, but what we're really interested is collecting the data from the satellite's UHF beacon. It would be great if people can ...send us back any data to to [email protected]
PhoneSat Details: - Frequency: 437.092MHz AX.25 AFSK - PhoneSat Callsign(s): KJ6KKZ (primary), K5RDY (temporarily during a reboot) - Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/NASA_Phonesat, follow us for live updates!
Balloon/APRS Details: - Launch Time: 10-10:30AM (PDT?) (follow twitter for updates) - Launch Location: Valverde Park (outside of Manteca) - APRS tracking: Callsign KF7ODR-1
Predicted Path: http://habhub.org/predict/#!/uuid=e4826f7ae71c69c1abac515a20d8e821b20f78bf
Also, here is an article on their previous flight: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/11/cell-phones-space-smartphone-nasa/
73, The PhoneSat team