Regarding real LOW Earth “orbits”, G6UIM reports a Balloon launched in the UK is approaching Washington state from across Asia and the Pacific right now.
See: http://spacenear.us/tracker/ look for Balloon B-63
It is being well received by the APRS network in Canada, Washington and Oregon as it approaches Vancoover Island as shown here:
http://aprs.org/balloons/M0XER-3.jpg
That image from Lynn, author of APRSIS32.
Bob, Wb4APR
Bob,
Are these balloon's on 144.390 73 Nitin [VU3TYG]
From: Robert Bruninga bruninga@usna.edu To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2014 10:27 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Round-world balloon approaching Noth America M0XER-3
Regarding real LOW Earth “orbits”, G6UIM reports a Balloon launched in the UK is approaching Washington state from across Asia and the Pacific right now.
See: http://spacenear.us/tracker/ look for Balloon B-63
It is being well received by the APRS network in Canada, Washington and Oregon as it approaches Vancoover Island as shown here:
http://aprs.org/balloons/M0XER-3.jpg
That image from Lynn, author of APRSIS32.
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Hi all...
Andy VK3YT has a pico balloon that was launched from Melbourne Australia and was last spotted using APRS flying over Brazil, still at over 8000m alt.......with any luck it may end up back in Australia....by the weekend...
John
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