BallastHalo 3 - Found!

[James Coxon]

Hey All,
The payload has been found in a field near to Sées in Northern France,
recovery is being worked out! The flight was really good, travelled
419km and reached about 30km altitude and flew for 6hrs 15mins . While
the ballast doesn't appear to have been dropped we learnt a lot about
ballast sensors and tanks and the plan is to rebuild and fly again
with some more sensible logic. Also we were able to test the range of
a 10mW transmitter with M6DGE picking up strings at 425km! Thanks
again for all the help!

More info: http://www.pegasushabproject.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/missions:ballasthalo:ballasthalo3
Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcoxon77/sets/72157621083447545/
Flight path: http://spacenear.us/tracker/

James Coxon

M6JCX

[James Coxon]

Hey all,
Just a quick update BallastHalo3 has been recovered and is now in the
hands of F1USE - just organising postage back to the UK.
Also work has begun on BallastHalo 4! The plan is to improve on 3 and
actually get some working ballast tanks :-p

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcoxon77/4238693714/in/set-72157621083447545/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcoxon77/4237919439/

BallastHalo 3 -
http://www.pegasushabproject.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/missions:ballasthalo:ballasthalo3
BallastHalo 4 -
http://www.pegasushabproject.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/missions:ballasthalo:ballasthalo4

James

2009/12/15 James Coxon <jac...@googlemail.com>: