The eagle has landed! #NSC01 is home

[Francois Dion]

And so is the cluster (networked) of 7 Raspberry Pi and 8 cameras. AFAIK, this is the first multi node computing cluster ever sent to near space on a High Altitude Balloon flight. We like "First in Flight" in North Carolina :)

Cluster detail:

http://raspberry-python.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-computer-network-in-space-part-1.html

Preliminary information:

Launch 7:55 from Raylen Vineyard, in Mocksville, West of Winston Salem

Official everything off the ground, we are not holding the balloon anymore:7:57:24

Balloon burst: 9:05:57

Ballon back on earth: 9:39 in Hurdle Mills, North of Chapel Hill

Lost visual contact soon after takeoff, and primary and backup positioning systems failed to report during the flight... They were working perfectly just before we let the balloon go.

However, we got a ping from the balloon at 16:48:58! And thus, we were able to recover it.

A full debrief will happen at our next PYPTUG meeting this coming Monday the 27th in Winston-Salem. We'll talk some about the python code that ran the cluster, the realtime twitter position reporting, the simulation website, look at pretty pictures etc (picture of earth right after the balloon burst): 

http://www.pyptug.org/2015/04/pyptug-monthly-meeting-team-near-space.html

I'll also be at RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) on Thursday the 23rd (TOMORROW!) talking about Python 3 (Mystery Python Theater 3K) in Chapell Hill. Feel free to attend and ask questions (the NSC-01 mission was powered by Linux and most of the code was Python 3). See the details of that meeting there:

http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/apr-15-mtg

Francois

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