Nova 8 / HAPS-D, Last minute bolt-on - sunrise from altitude |
Nova 8 / HAPS-D, Last minute bolt-on - sunrise from altitude |
Aug 28 2008, 11:36 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
"We're launching tomorrow morning' says Ed.
"Shame I can't make it, I have to be at work" says I. "At 3 am" says Ed "Hmmm" says I Long story short - hopefully a reflight of the HAPS1 A560 tomorrow - at dawn - with recovery in time for me to get back to Leicester in time for work. Ed will fill you in on the rest of the payload. He's an engineer - I'm just a temperamental artist. Obviously - anyone with half a brain will be fast asleep, so may not be any/many live updates. Possibly live tracking, maybe uStream while we're setting up. The real problem is the toxicology involved in staying up all night with caffeine based beverages. (For people just finding this thread... 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. |
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Aug 29 2008, 05:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
2 , metres!
How many balloon launches do you think have ever been watched by people in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. all at the same time? History in the making I'd bet. Looks like it's headed nearly straight up now....Nope, heading south again. OMG! Now we've got the Chase Car in hot pursuit. The tension of this is killing me! http://spacenear.us/tracker/ |
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Aug 29 2008, 05:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
OMG! Now we've got the Chase Car in hot pursuit. To me it looks like it's sitting still. The chase car is the number two, right? By the way, what's the number one hanging out west of the M11? Doug headed to work? Edit: Chase car location suddenly shows up south of the balloon! And the balloon ground track has done another quick loop-d-loop. Ho hum. |
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