JP Aerospace Blog

We flew to just over 96,000 feet. It was cold and windy and we landed  far down range. It was a great mission, the vehicle has been recovered and we ‘re on our way home.

We are rolling for the desert for Away 75. I think this is our 145th mission. Away 75 is a high altitude balloon mission. We are carrying 32 separate payloads (ten are PongSats),six HD cameras and a twenty foot camera boom. This is a single vehicle run with just a small crew. It will be relaxing after the mega missions of the past two years.

Wish us luck!

Tonight we will be on the NBC Evening News with Brian Williams!
It’s all about PongSats. Students making PongSats, Us flying PongSats, kids opening PongSats to see what happened.

There should be some great in flight video too.

UPDATE: We got bumped. As soon as I know when it’s rescheduled for I’ll let you know.

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Here a clip from “Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature” that shows our canister falling from the edge of space, from the camera’s point of view.

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Note: The clips have been pulled from youtube but the entire episode is now up.

The opening of the light bulb container.

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We got game.