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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Oct 2 2007, 11:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
OK this is getting off topic and I won't keep on about it here, beyond this one post. Understanding the detailed dynamics of atmospheres is surely a major target for planetary exploration. Clouds may be fuzzier than rocks but they can sometimes take quite crisp forms, on scales of just a few metres in some cases. They act as visible tracers of air movements and markers of humidity levels as well as possible compositional gradients of gaseous and suspended liquids and solids. In short they are most worthy imaging targets. I envisage possibly a cluster of mini-balloons descending through a planetary atmosphere each taking pictures in perhaps three different directions. Even with random separate orientations and spins there could be enough dual 'hits' to generate a 3D movie of the atmospheric goings-on. I think this would be an exciting thing to do and could be done with simple 'Ellison' balloons. Getting even one lucky stereo hit with just two of the things in Earth's atmosphere would demonstrate the potential and would perhaps be a technical first.
all this aside I wish you every success with the exciting stuff you are planning. |
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