http://www.headfullofair.com Mathew Lippincott's blog on design and DIY aerospace Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:18:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.headfullofair.com/2009/08/17/the-first-self-blogging-aerostat/ http://www.headfullofair.com/2009/08/17/the-first-self-blogging-aerostat/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:44:39 +0000 Mathew http://www.headfullofair.com/?p=133 I’ve recently gotten in touch with Chris Fries in Chicago through the Balloon_Sked mailing list for amateur near space balloon missions.  He’s not going to near space but what his setup is elegant, simple, and very low weight.  He attaches a <3oz payload to some standard aluminized mylar party balloons, and his balloons blog for themselves reporting location, images, and video through PCS-band GSM/UMTS cellphone signals.  I hope he posts a how-to on his setup.  Launches here here and here.

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