High altitude balloon payload, from Sable-3 discussion |
High altitude balloon payload, from Sable-3 discussion |
Sep 26 2007, 11:16 PM
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We began talkin about a UMSF balloon - and who know what might happen if enough people think about something hard enough, thoroughly enough and long enough. How's about this as a starting point. http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/ with http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/part101.html as an important regulatory start point (I'm going to look up the UK regs for this as well) http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/nova1launch.html is also very impressive - all done in the UK This http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/...video_podc.html is particularly impressive - I like the multiple-cameras slant. Anyway - thought I'd get a thread going - this is an idea I like too much to let it gather dust in a corner - the one thing that I think would be nice to achieve is self-portraiture of some sort - think Beagle 2's WAM etc....perhaps in a corner of the FOV of one of/the imaging system. What sort of limit's should we set ourselves? 1kg 10x10x20cm? (sort of 2U Cubesat-on-a-diet budget) Doug |
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Sep 29 2007, 05:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Have y'all thought about where you'd want to fly this thing? Most of the U.S. has severe restrictions on flying any non-commercial, non-military vehicle above about 2,000 feet, and there are a lot of places where the restriction is lower than that, or where you can't fly anything. Most of this is due to airlanes, landing patterns, etc., but some has to do with laws against unlicensed surveillance.
I can't imagine Europe is a lot more open about this kind of thing -- if anything, Europe has more crowded skies than does the U.S. And to add another inconvenient point -- even if you could launch from, say, the U.K., won't the camera pod come down several hundred miles from the launch point? There are a lot of things several hundred miles away from Britain that aren't very welcoming places for recovery of a pod -- the North Sea and the Alps are a couple that come to mind. Just asking the obvious question I haven't seen raised yet... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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