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SABLE-3: an amateur stratospheric balloon flight, Cool Earth images |
 Sep 14 2007, 03:58 PM
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Google's Lunar X-PRIZE has wet your appetite for robotic space exploration but you haven't got enough Delta-V or are cash-strapped? Enter stratospheric balloons.
A group of Canadian amateurs has flown the SABLE-3 balloon (via Backreaction) up to a height of about 35 km and got some pretty cool images of the Earth. Worth a look -- and a thought. Paolo Amoroso -------------------- Avventure Planetarie - Blog sulla comunicazione e divulgazione scientifica
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Oct 4 2007, 04:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 311 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Florida & Texas, USA Member No.: 482 |
This is a fun idea to contemplate! I know that there are balloons that can target an altitude, and therefore have some control over where they drift. For example, Space Data uses balloons to create low-budge com "satellites" that drift over target areas. I do not know how much more expensive those balloons are, but it is fun to contemplate a long drift time to accomplish something more interesting than just reaching a high altitude.
Since we have interested members in both North Carolina and California, we could consider longer flight paths? We could organize with amateur radio clubs to help track, and if we need to crash land somewhere remote, there's an active community of "geocachers" who'd love to hunt for something so unique and recover it. I suppose power supplies would be a problem for such a long flight. Are there light weight solar panels that can power the 8-watt APRS transmitter and TBD science payload? Are there cameras with really long (5+ hour) battery life? |
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Oct 4 2007, 04:21 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Check out this thread:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ic=4635&hl= |
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Paolo Amoroso SABLE-3: an amateur stratospheric balloon flight Sep 14 2007, 03:58 PM
nprev ...Whoa!!! That is major cool!... Sep 14 2007, 04:39 PM
rlorenz QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 14 2007, 12:39 PM) ..... Sep 15 2007, 12:12 PM Ant103 I like it : simple, low pound and lovely results. Sep 18 2007, 02:19 PM ustrax QUOTE (Ant103 @ Sep 18 2007, 03:19 PM) I ... Sep 19 2007, 01:00 PM jaredGalen Anyone have an idea of what size the balloon expan... Sep 19 2007, 02:33 PM AndyG QUOTE (ustrax @ Sep 19 2007, 02:00 PM) ED... Sep 20 2007, 08:04 AM ustrax I'm seing many of us interested in this theme ... Sep 20 2007, 09:43 AM ElkGroveDan Wow. I want to do that too. Sep 19 2007, 03:30 PM djellison So do I - but JP Aerospace wont return my emails
... Sep 19 2007, 03:48 PM nprev Surprising. Hell, this would be a much less expens... Sep 19 2007, 04:52 PM dvandorn On the other hand, I can just see a Bob Newhart ph... Sep 19 2007, 04:58 PM ElkGroveDan The tracking device comes in a kit and is inexpens... Sep 19 2007, 05:39 PM djellison How about one of the cheap 300D's you can find... Sep 19 2007, 05:41 PM David 35.8 km is pretty good. I don't think any roc... Sep 19 2007, 06:07 PM helvick QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 19 2007, 06:41 PM)... Sep 19 2007, 08:12 PM ElkGroveDan It also occurred to me (knowing squat about balloo... Sep 19 2007, 09:23 PM jamescanvin Of course the ballon could go a LONG way in 24 hou... Sep 19 2007, 10:43 PM nprev Hmm...How many "Bobs" do you think we ge... Sep 19 2007, 11:00 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 19 2007, 03:00 PM) EGD... Sep 19 2007, 11:36 PM nprev Oh, okay; I'm with you now! Yeah, that w... Sep 19 2007, 11:49 PM helvick The thing is that you want to keep this all very, ... Sep 20 2007, 12:25 AM djellison I just ebay'd my old Canon S2 IS for about £15... Sep 20 2007, 09:50 AM ustrax QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 20 2007, 10:50 AM)... Sep 20 2007, 10:13 AM djellison Hmm- was your dog in Milan last year? Helen had o... Sep 20 2007, 10:18 AM ustrax QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 20 2007, 11:18 AM)... Sep 20 2007, 10:49 AM AndyG This is a highly achievable goal in terms of the e... Sep 20 2007, 12:17 PM Ant103 Hmmm
Interesting proposition Rui. I enjoy if I ca... Sep 20 2007, 11:55 AM nprev Gotta be helium to reach the kind of altitudes des... Sep 20 2007, 12:10 PM Ant103 I found this page about solar balloons : http://pe... Sep 20 2007, 12:17 PM Rakhir Speaking about solar balloons, these guys are supp... Sep 20 2007, 12:49 PM Juramike
! Sep 20 2007, 04:01 PM nprev ...but that descent chute BETTER work!!... Sep 21 2007, 12:24 AM ElkGroveDan Don't worry guys. I have heard rumors that we... Sep 21 2007, 01:00 AM nprev Well, do tell! Like every other California r... Sep 21 2007, 02:02 AM Juramike I've got a Davis VantagePro weather base stati... Sep 21 2007, 02:54 AM ustrax QUOTE (Juramike @ Sep 21 2007, 03:54 AM) ... Sep 21 2007, 08:10 AM |
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