Near Space validation components

[tristancho]

Hi,
I glad to inform you we reached the near-space on July 30, 2010.
Several Picorover components underwent successful testing on a high
altitude balloon flight launched within Proyecto DAEDALUS - NS1
http://daedalus.sondasespaciales.com/ where I am a part of it.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FGRqE0Ps42w8f_1jvu6g7Q?feat=embedwebsite

Launch place: La Roda (Albacete) NOTAM: 39.1303N 002.1104W
Launch time: 13:40 July 30th, 2010
Total trip 40 km
Max. altitude: 33 km
Landing place: 39.0152513N 2.48516321W
Landing time aprox: 15:45 July 30th, 2010

The flight profile can be seen on the real time telemetry panel here:
http://daedalus.sondasespaciales.com/sonda/index.php

Following components were attached to the main payload container:
• Picorover MCU: ATmega168, 8 MHz, 16 kbytes, 20 MIPS – OK
• SMD HD camera with ANIKA DSP – FAILED
• microSD card 8 Gbytes – OK
• LiPO batt. 120 mAh, 3.7 V – OK
• Nordic transceiver nRF2401A with Chip Antenna 2.45 GHz – OK
• ADXL326 Accelerometer 3DOF for the counterweight – OK
• Inertial platform based on LIS331HH accelerometer and ITG-3200 gyro
plus temperature sensor – OK
• Bluearrow S0251 Microservo – OK

The payload was successfully recoverede approximately 40 km from the
launch site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0hHRfT8A7o



Best,
Joshua Tristancho

[John Pritchard]

Very cool

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