I see the Miami Herald reports that radio amateurs are using crowd-funding for a Near Space balloon launch by Charleston students. Looks a good educational project.
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/10/23/south-charleston-high-students-to-launch-sate...
73 Trevor M5AKA
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 19:25, Joshua Abraham jarvideo@gmail.com wrote:
Well that's certainly a shame. But I think the group sending it up is unaware that it's going to burn up within a few weeks. The whole push for funding was that donators could have personal data loaded on to the sat for posterity. Not much point to that if it's going to be promptly destroyed in a number of days. 73, Joshua KJ4VYR
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:59 PM, M5AKA m5aka@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi Joshua,
The antenna looks 145/437 doesn't it. They are manifested on an Interorbital Systems launch http://www.interorbital.com/%C2%A0but when the launch will take place is unknown, presumably a year or more from now.
It's a 310 km orbit so would only operate for a few weeks before burning up.
73 Trevor M5AKA
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 18:36, Joshua Abraham jarvideo@gmail.com wrote:
This is a bit outside of the realm of traditional amateur satellite launches but I found it to be very interesting nonetheless. Some fans of
a
popular scifi show have raised the money to launch a replica of the show's time-and-space traveling ship into orbit this fall. From what I know of it so far, it will but a fully functioning sat within a very unusual chassis and will feature a GoPro camera mounted inside with the intention to transmit photos back to earth. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding any real technical information on this "blue bird" but maybe someone here knows more about it? All I could find was a very brief spec sheet. Here's a link to their KickStarter page as well as their official website. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/573935592/were-putting-a-tardis-into-orb... http://tardisinorbit.com/
-73, Joshua
KJ4VYR
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