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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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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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 30 2007, 09:30 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
Cool project! How much would a weather balloon set one back these days?
I think for the stereo idea you'd want the two cameras on the same platform (a bit like the SIM mission) since the balloons will drift apart quite quickly and randomly I would think,. |
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Sep 30 2007, 09:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I think for the stereo idea you'd want the two cameras on the same platform (a bit like the SIM mission) since the balloons will drift apart quite quickly and randomly I would think,. Yet the baseline you can feasibly pull off in such a way would be useless for producing stereo of clouds tens of kilometers below. I think stereo is a no-go here. -------------------- |
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