The largest they'll take - 4GB

Doug

This is why I made this :

http://vimeo.com/1628991

Note, in the bottom right corner, you can download a MOV so you can scrub back and forth thru a med-res version of every still.

To be honest, I resent the very existence of the setup stills, they're eating SD card capacity before we launch and I could turn up the length of movies and number of stills if the payload didn't have to be prepared 30 mins or so before the launch. Hence, I don't include them in the movie versions.

Just done an MMB update - I think Mike's got it sorted.

(There are 2728 new Opportunity images at Exploratorium.)

I know how horrible and time-consuming it is to revisit an old IT project that you thought you'd left behind - so kudos to Mike for doing so.

They are - dramatically.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_10_07_07.asp - lots of detail of the 112 different throttle levels they can use.

There was an upgrade, I think, from 10.2 to 10.5 on the server. Not sure if/how they might impact it - but stuff has been changed - it wasn't just 'down' and then 'up' again.

NExt time out - I'm dropping to the next size down on the camera, but turning the compression down from 2 to 1 ( 4 being the highest compression )

Doug

It's one of the smaller cameras, every time it gets a picture it beeps.

Some of the vimeo stuff is still encoding - give it an hour or so

Movies from the Nova 8 camera

http://vimeo.com/1628664 Ascent Part 1
http://vimeo.com/1628493 Ascent Part 2
http://vimeo.com/1628497 Ascent Part 3
http://vimeo.com/1628414 Descent


Movies from the HAPS-D camera

http://vimeo.com/1628947 Ascent Part 1
http://vimeo.com/1628809 Ascent Part 2
http://vimeo.com/1628810 Ascent Part 3
http://vimeo.com/1626812 Descent


http://vimeo.com/1628991 All of the still images at 6fps from the HAPS-D camera
http://vimeo.com/1629086 All of the still images at 6fps from the Nova 8 camera
Download the MOV from bottom right on these - and you can essentially scrub your way thru all the images at quite a reasonable resolution.

That earlier Balloon was testing Ed et.al.'s plans for a balloon gondola that can fly itself home again. The rocket launched were seperate - just happening at the same venue. BUT - at some point, the CU Spaceflight guys intend to combine high power rocketry and high altitude ballooning

And TRAC was 'The Race Against Cancer' - a friend of mine was a co-organiser so I helped out on the weekend of the event to get things moving. It was quite a few racing drivers from GP2 and below, all racing for free, with the money raised by spectators etc going to Cancer Research UK - http://www.theraceagainstcancer.co.uk/

Not too shabby James.


All the descent movies from the HAPS-D side - http://vimeo.com/1626812
and the Nova 8 side - http://vimeo.com/1628414

The three Nova ascent vids are done and up. Just got to make the three HAPS-D ascent movies before switching to stills.

Balloon Burst at Apogee ( About 32.8km ) seen from the Nova A560 camera
http://vimeo.com/1626665

Videos will be on Vimeo this time. Probably 10 movies. It'll take most of the night for them to appear.

For each camera, two ascent movies (the 20s movie clips run together) and one descent movie, and then one ascent and one descent movie of stills.

If you hit the download button you get an image that's near to full res... to be honest any larger doesn't offer anything more res wise.

Doug

In some of the early movies - that's just about all you can see

Doug

No - we're properly out of it now.

It could take ages to sort through this lot - so I've just done an iWeb gallery of a bunch of nice stills from the flight.

http://gallery.me.com/djellison/100034

Once all the stills are down and the movies are down, I'll sort out something on Vimeo for you to start seing it. There's a LOT of very dark, very blurred frames ( so people who want to download them all just as a matter of stamp-collecting would be wasting their time) - however later on there are some great images - such as this one.

Fingers crossed - it's going to go up from a .ac.uk connection.

For reasons of pure server practicaltiy - I'm going to hand the complete data set over to James (for obvious reasons ) - but I want to ask for restraint from everyone else. I will put ALL the movies onto the web via Youtube and Vimeo, and I will put lots of stills up here and elsewhere. But it's simply not sensible or sustainable to say "come on down, get the whole 7 gig" to a large number of people. I hope people understand. It's not about being a bit 'ESA' with the data - I'll do my best to use whatever sensible means there are for everyone to see as much of it as possible - but if I call an open-house on it all, the people who really need it, wont be able to get it, and so the beautiful pans etc wont be as rapidly forthcoming.

Doug

The badger icon on the actual PCB is the very same Badger of Badger-Badger-Badger fame as in that picture

Just got off the phone from Ed. He's essentially speechless. He didn't know what to say - but 'awesome' and 'amazing' were used more than once.

So net result.... it worked, and beautifully.

They've got to get back to Cambridge (a couple of hours) and then we'll get a few tasters.

Well - I gave up the chase after the first 40 minute drive south - I couldn't hang around any more with work to get back for.

BUT

Spoke to Ed - they have eyes on the payload on the ground near Bicknacre. He promises a call once they get to it and inspect the result.

I think we probably tried to put too much onto it - hence the rather slow ascent and thus quite a long ride. A little bit worried about the duration of the flight. I cranked up the 'mb/minute' as it were, on the script....but it will have done 3-4 hours on the card.

She's away - just broken thru 2km and rising. Launch was at about 0402

Just arrived - putting uStream of preps going on line now.

New portrai mode + bit of down-pointing housing made. New script made. Just setting of for Cambridge now