On the next mission we will be launching the high racks in pairs. This means two launch bags side by side. This will keep the landing sites of the two vehicles close together. The idea is to reduce four recovery efforts to two.
The problem is we have only one launch bag sized for the balloons we want to use. We could use one of the larger launch bags designed for the Tandem airship, however it doesn’t work quite as well. The smaller balloon tends to get lost in all that fabric. This can only mean one thing: More sewing!!!!!!!! Let me tell you, the team is excited….. This will be our sixth launch bag.