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Cynthia I
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post May 29 2006, 10:00 AM
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The Sintra Space Center is proud to inform that the first test for the Cynthia Project had occured last Saturday with (dubious) sucess. biggrin.gif

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post May 29 2006, 10:13 AM
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OO - is that a radio controlled plane?

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post May 29 2006, 10:21 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ May 29 2006, 11:13 AM) *
OO - is that a radio controlled plane?

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What's a radio controlled plane compared with an empty milk box, a plastic bag & shoe lacers parachute and a mighty USTRAX5F (read: 5 fingers) launcher?...

You don't know what you can come with things around you and a sunny afternoon with nothing to do... rolleyes.gif


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post May 29 2006, 10:46 AM
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Ahhh - throw it way up in the air and pictures on the way down smile.gif Cunning. Any pictures of the 'aperatus'?

I've been trying to find a way to simulate MOC/HiRISE push-broom imaging using video footage from a radio control plane...no luck yet though - somewhere there must be a sourceforge project smile.gif

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post May 29 2006, 10:58 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ May 29 2006, 11:46 AM) *
Ahhh - throw it way up in the air and pictures on the way down smile.gif Cunning. Any pictures of the 'aperatus'?

I've been trying to find a way to simulate MOC/HiRISE push-broom imaging using video footage from a radio control plane...no luck yet though - somewhere there must be a sourceforge project smile.gif

Doug


It was video footage, the first 15sec, aproximately, are from 'lift-off' and ascension, but the 'aperatus' was still too bouncy and fast so I've cropped some images to have a better sence of the 'flight', but I'm already building the next version, reducing weight, with more stability and longer video capacity, capable of reaching higher grounds and take a bit more of time to descend...It's fun!!! It's geek power!!! laugh.gif

EDITED: No images from the 'thing' but I can take some when I arrive home, it deserves it...It's the first of a future glorious generation... rolleyes.gif
My idea is not capture images from above, it goes beyond that...The idea is to develop it to the point it can reach the ground and...rove!!! cool.gif


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It's an UFO movie, but the camera was attached to the UFO, so that it yelded no useable science data.
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post May 29 2006, 01:04 PM
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QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ May 29 2006, 01:41 PM) *
It's an UFO movie, but the camera was attached to the UFO, so that it yelded no useable science data.


No usable science data?!!
What about that strange life form?:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/15.jpg


Really, didn't expected it, for a first test to be so cool...It was even possible to make out a panorama from the air...Images were taken during ascent and descent so the joining of the frames are not perfect but it is possible to take a look at the area:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustr...cynthiaIpan.jpg

Detailed section:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustr...ynthiaIpan2.jpg

And this is my favourite, it really gives you the sense of the heighteness it has reached...Developing is urgent! smile.gif :

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/3.jpg


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QUOTE (ustrax @ May 29 2006, 01:04 PM) *
No usable science data?!!
What about that strange life form?:

[url=http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/15.jpg]


Ooops sorry I did not noticed this strange alien!

Thanks for stitching your images, it gives us a startling view of this strange planet. Did you obtained soil analysis results?
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post May 30 2006, 08:55 AM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ May 29 2006, 11:58 AM) *
It was video footage, the first 15sec, aproximately, are from 'lift-off' and ascension, but the 'aperatus' was still too bouncy and fast so I've cropped some images to have a better sence of the 'flight', but I'm already building the next version, reducing weight, with more stability and longer video capacity, capable of reaching higher grounds and take a bit more of time to descend...It's fun!!! It's geek power!!! laugh.gif

EDITED: No images from the 'thing' but I can take some when I arrive home, it deserves it...It's the first of a future glorious generation... rolleyes.gif
My idea is not capture images from above, it goes beyond that...The idea is to develop it to the point it can reach the ground and...rove!!! cool.gif


Here it is, the mutilated but proud remains of the historical cynthia I:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/cI.jpg


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post May 30 2006, 11:43 AM
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Well, precious historical remains of the first Cynthia spaceship.

Let us guess that Cynthia II will fly higher, and more models to come, so that Cynthia n will be the first spaceship to reach a star...
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Well done ustrax ... on to Mars !
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post May 30 2006, 12:22 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ May 30 2006, 10:55 AM) *
Here it is, the mutilated but proud remains of the historical cynthia I:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/cI.jpg


<only-for-people-who-have-been-in-spain>

I think I can even recognise the parachute, made of a "high-tech" multi-purpose material... err, plastic bag from "El Corte Inglés" supermarkets? biggrin.gif

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post May 30 2006, 12:56 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 30 2006, 01:22 PM) *
<only-for-people-who-have-been-in-spain>

I think I can even recognise the parachute, made of a "high-tech" multi-purpose material... err, plastic bag from "El Corte Inglés" supermarkets? biggrin.gif

</only-for-people-who-have-been-in-spain>


Precisely Mr. T... wink.gif

We've got one in Lisboa...


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