New Video! https://youtu.be/B7XEUJSekbI
How to Rig your Weather Balloon.
I was making the rigging for our upcoming balloon flight. I filmed it to show you how it’s done.
New Video
May 20th, 2022Did you know we had a tote store?
May 20th, 2022What’s that you say? You’re heading to space but need something to put your stuff in?
Just head on over the Tote Store at the Dark Sky Market!
https://dark-sky-market.myshopify.com/collections/the-tote-store
Concept Art: Orbital Ascender Airship
March 28th, 2022
Engine Breakthrough: Ablative Graphene Electrode
March 28th, 2022They worked!!!! We’re bouncing off the walls! We did the 1st firing of the ablative graphene electrodes in the MHD plasma engine unit. The electrodes ablated away removing fouling & kept electrically connected to the plasma during the entire run. Implications for the whole field.
OK 2022, let’s get started. I have stuff to fly
January 1st, 2022
Video! Wind, Balloons and a Blue Planet Below
December 7th, 2021YouTube: https://youtu.be/sb4gK2VHemQ
As we get ready for our 200th flight I think back about some of the really great flights we’ve had. This mission always comes to mind. These were a series of flights where we launch 5 balloon in one morning and two on another. They carried dozen of experiment for the airship to orbit program, a few customer payloads to pay for it all and over 2400 PongSat student experiments.
Away 132 Update
December 7th, 2021Away 132 is in the hangar at the launch site ready to fly. We’re just waiting on a weather window.
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