Nova 8 / HAPS-D, Last minute bolt-on - sunrise from altitude |
Nova 8 / HAPS-D, Last minute bolt-on - sunrise from altitude |
Aug 29 2008, 06:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Aug 29 2008, 07:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
I'm sure it's down and hopefully soon will be in the clutches of it's rightful owners. I suspect the position updates were stopped to help ensure this.
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Aug 29 2008, 07:09 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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. |
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Aug 29 2008, 07:39 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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. |
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Aug 29 2008, 07:46 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Great.
If there is any chance of getting the whole lot online today (set up ftp and then go to bed!) then I have 4-5 hours this evening with nothing currently to do. -------------------- |
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Aug 29 2008, 09:28 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Aug 29 2008, 09:30 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
If there is any chance of getting the whole lot online today 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 |
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Aug 29 2008, 11:27 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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.
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Aug 29 2008, 12:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Doug - "The badger icon on the actual PCB is the very same Badger of Badger-Badger-Badger fame as in that picture".
That's an amazing coincidence. I just picked him from a random Google search because he was cute. Well done to Ed and Doug and everyone who worked on this project. It was incredible to watch as events unfolded. It'd be kinda nice if we could have Google Maps giving up to the moment movements on the Rovers (although at times there'd be little movement of course!) I just thought I'd post this desktop wallpaper tribute to Badger for all the team. Thanks for a fascinating day. Can't wait to see the movies and images. Astro0 |
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Aug 29 2008, 12:38 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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 |
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Aug 29 2008, 01:42 PM
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Speechless...
Airbag |
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Aug 29 2008, 01:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
such as this one. That alone made the entire effort worthwhile. Just gorgeous!. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Aug 29 2008, 01:52 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Doug,
I am very proud and amazed at the accomplishments UK Balloon Teams this past week... and to see these fabulous pictures is just a thrill. Monitoring this flight across the globe in real time, pictures in near real time, telemetry for analysis...it is something I could not have dreamed of when I was a boy...or even your age! You have talked the talk (unmanned space flight) and now you have walked the walk! You Guys Rock -------------------- CLA CLL
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Aug 29 2008, 02:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Incredible and amazing
The images are gorgeous. We can see lights of cities at the ground, under clouds layer while at high altitude sun is rising . -------------------- |
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Aug 29 2008, 02:06 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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