Saturday the team was building High Racks. There are a lot of missions coming together so we trying to get a jump on it. We’re starting to build up eleven identical vehicles. Day one was about structure. The team cranked out seventeen decks, six carbon frames and thirteen fin fabrics.
For those who don’t know, this is a High Rack. It’s about five feet tall and carries about twenty pounds of experiments, equipment and PongSats to 100,000 feet.
There are now 700 PongSats signed up for Away 47. Three more teachers e-mailed today that are interested in their classes flying. I think we’re going to need to put another vehicle in the mix to handle them all.
Mesospheric Explorer flown June 19, 2001
I’m just a little behind… This flight was from the summer of 2009. It was a real milestone for us.
Check us out. I’m still figuring it all out so please bear with me. Suggestions welcome!
I was being given an excellent tour of a hot balloon when they asked “Want to go?”.
A huge thank you to Pilot Trudy Ann DeGraff and the great crew of “Cutie Dink”.
Mount Shasta from Away 38.
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