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There are eleven vehicles in progress now in the shop. A bunch of high racks (including a rocket launch variant), Ascender 26 and Ascender 90. Much progress was made on all of then this weekend.

A truck load of High Rack balloon platform.
This pile was for the Samsung Galaxy phone project. I once though that was a lot. What we have in the shop makes that look like nothing.

We’re building for two separate missions in April, nine vehicles all together and for an October mission, seven vehicles.

At least our chair is 🙂

http://www.airspacemag.com/snapshot/138669944.html?start=16&page=2&c=y

We got mentioned in an article about new commercial space companies. Usually with ping pong balls and airships we’re considered too wacky to be grouped with the other players. It’s nice and much appreciated that these folks did.

idea-writes STL Aerospace

This one is from Team Kuchenbuch.

PongSats from the Away 70 Mission getting a bit of zero gee on descent.

We inflated and inspected both port and starboard Ascender 90 envelopes today. It went very well. The 90 is getting some major upgrades.

PongSat made it as one of the best Kickstarter projects of 2012!

http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012#space

We’ve signed up the 10,000th PongSat. It will be flying next April along with over a thousand others.

I think we may have flown more student payloads than the entire rest of the planet put together.  The April mission is full and we are signing up PongSats for an October 12th 2013 mission. We already have 300 PongSats signed up for that one!

Here the link to the great NBC PongSat story:

http://dailynightly.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/11/15848691-learn-more-about-jp-aerospace?threadId=3636612&commentId=73213770#c73213770