JP Aerospace Blog

Vision to Reality

Administrator — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:56:09 +0000

Above is what the customer sent us as an idea of what they were looking for. Below is what we delivered at the edge of space.

PongSats in the News

Administrator — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:54:24 +0000

Here are two great news stories about students opening their PongSats after flight!

http://www.advertiserdemocrat.com/node/603526
http://www.jconline.com/article/20130515/NEWS04/305150034

JP Interview this Saturday with Senator Bill Bradley

Administrator — Thu, 16 May 2013 02:14:39 +0000

This Saturday and Sunday JP will be on the radio with Senator Bill Bradley.

The Senator’s radio show “American Voices” is on Sirius Satellite network. The Senator and JP will talk about PongSat, space education and Airship to Orbit. Listen in!

American Voices airs on Sirius XM Satellite Radio Channel 124
Saturdays: 7AM, 1PM, and 7PM; Sundays: 4AM, 10AM, 4PM, and 11PM.
(All times are EST)

American Voices facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/Americanvoiceswithsenatorbillbradley?fref=ts

Mission Highlights Video

Administrator — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:49:18 +0000

Here’s a highlights version of the last April’s PongSat and MiniCube flight video. Just under four minutes but like movie trailers it has the good bits!

JPA News Story on ABC

Administrator — Sun, 05 May 2013 04:20:32 +0000

Dale Schornack has posted his news piece on our KLM Mission.
Great video and great team interviews!!!!!!!!!!

PongSat Mission Video

Administrator — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:41:26 +0000

The mission video is up on youtube!

The video is from all six vehicles. We used seven on board HD cameras and six ground HD camera. We had a high speed camera looking up at the balloon for an amazing burst slow-mo shot.

We shipped the PongSats back without the mission DVD. It takes two weeks to get the DVD’s made and the end of the school year is getting very close. I finished the video yesterday and today it goes to the DVD production company. We’ll send them to the PongSat participants as soon as there back. Until then watch it on line. It came out really great.

Away 81 Balloon Burst

Administrator — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:58:11 +0000

We put a 120 frames per second camera on the Away 81 PongSat mission. This is looking up at the balloon while it bursts at the edge of space.

Yesterday’s PongSats

Administrator — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:40:25 +0000

Mission Accomplished!

Administrator — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:39:29 +0000

Rolling for the Desert

Administrator — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:49:56 +0000

We’re rolling for the desert. Liftoff at 5:30am Monday morning.

Wish us luck and watch us live:

http://space.klm.com/

Floating PongSats

Administrator — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:28:32 +0000

PongSats always get a few seconds of micro-gravity on descent.

These PongSats are aboard Away 82 at 98,000 feet.

Mission Success!

Administrator — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:48:22 +0000

Five vehicles launched and five recover! We flew just over 2000 PongSat student experiments, the most we’ve ever flown at once. All five launches were in winds that were steady 20 with gusts to 46 mph.

One landed on a mountain and took four days to recover, but all is well. More details soon.

Heading for the Desert

Administrator — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:39:06 +0000

In a few minutes we will be off to the desert. Tomorrow morning we will be flying five high altitude balloon missions.

On board will be over 2,000 PongSat student experiments, three MiniCubes, seven cameras, and piles of radio and satellite uplink systems. It looks like we’re facing a 70 to 90 mile recovery across the mud in the high Sierras.

Wish us luck!

JPA at Beyond Geek

Administrator — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:31:28 +0000

Beyond Geek and been joining us on our adventures and has posted a great webisode!

The 10,000th PongSat

Administrator — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:24:26 +0000

The 10,000th PongSat will be flying to 100,000 feet on our April mission. This is a huge milestone for JP Aerospace.

The PongSat program is growing in orbit expanding leaps. We already have PongSat number 14,000 signed up for a flight this fall. While NASA is cutting back on it’s education out reach because of budget, JPA intends not only to take up the slack but to keep escalating people participation to completely insane new heights.

If you haven’t heard of PongSat, it is our free payload flight program. Students put their experiment in a ping pong ball. They mail it to us, we fly them to 100,000 feet or higher on our balloons, airships and platforms. After the flight we mail their PongSat back. Over 35,000 people have participated. Participants range from kindergartners to university professors to artists.