Ham Talk Live! – Episode 145 – High Altitude Ballooning

Brief Recap of 21 October HAB launch and Recovery – in Photos

Altitude achieved: 83,841 ft Distance point-to-point: 98.78 miles Top Speed: 92mph

HAB Flight – This morning – Oct 21

At the moment, the flight is back on. We have removed a few components. We are still flying a cross band repeater. We are still flying APRS. We are not trying to stop at 80,000. This object has been eliminated. Payload should reach over 95,000ft and might make 100,000ft before burst and return. Still planning […]

Greetings and 73 from W3ARD

This post is a very quick placeholder in anticipation of a high-altitude balloon launch Sunday 21 October ~10:00am local time over central-Texas. The experiment (for me and my team) is to autonomously halt the ascent of the balloon between 75,000-85,000 ft and establish a loiter period of ~20 minutes before descending back down to ground […]

Starduster II -Full Project Review Video

Greetings! Here is a recap video of the entire Starduster project from original idea, funding, testing, construction, planning, launch, recovery and data analysis. It’s about 54 minutes long but for those not able to participate in a school or civic talk in person, we felt like this was the best way to include you in […]