We are coming down to the wire. Six days left on the all or nothing Kickstarter fundraising effort. Take a look.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/2000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space
PongSat Infographic of the Day (8)
April 22nd, 2014PongSat Education in Action
April 21st, 2014
The Burst!
April 19th, 2014This balloon carried 400 PongSat student experiments to the edge of space.
Support PongSat at Kickstarter. Only nine days to go!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/2000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space
PongSat Infographic of the Day (7)
April 19th, 2014https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/2000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space
Everyone who flies a PongSat takes a journey. It is the ‘Way of the PongSat’. OK, it sounds silly but if you can have ‘Tao of Pooh’ and the ‘Te of Piglet’ you can have the ‘Way of the PongSat’
The background is the google Earth track of a PongSat misson. In the upper right is a high rack vehicle carrying 400 PongSats and in the left is some early PongSats. The little smudges on the PongSats aren’t really smudges. They are the initial of all the student who worked on that PongSat.
Please support PongSat by making a donation at Kickstarter, Only nine days left!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/2000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space
A Thousand Experiment Flying in September
April 18th, 2014One thousand, sixteen students have signed up for September 27th PongSat mission.
We are getting an amazing group of space explorers together. There are girl scout troops, university aerospace classes, lots of homeschool kids, special needs along with advanced placement classes. Six countries are represented and I don’t know how many US states. This is just the beginning. I fully expect to have 2000 PongSats signed up by mid May.
It will take six of our High Rack balloon vehicles to carry the 2000 PongSat student experiments to 100,000 feet. We will be launching them in pairs so they can video each other in flight at the edge of space.
JP on the Space Show!
April 13th, 2014JP on the Space Show radio program! Tune in Next Tuesday (April 15th) at 7-8:30 pm. I’ll be talking about Airship to Orbit, PongSats, Shock Tubes and 36 years of this crazy OTHER space program. Listen live on the web!!!!!!!! Call in and email in during the show and say HI!
http://thespaceshow.com/
PongSat Inforgraphic of the Day (6)
April 11th, 2014When we started PongSat we thought “wow we could do hundreds!” After 14,300 we’ve learned to set our sights higher.
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