PongSat Mission Video

May 3rd, 2013

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

April 26th, 2013

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

April 23rd, 2013

Mission Accomplished!

April 23rd, 2013

Rolling for the Desert

April 21st, 2013

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

April 14th, 2013

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

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

Mission Success!

April 12th, 2013

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.