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Wired has run an article on PongSat and the kickstarter effort.

PongSat on Wired

There are now just over 750 PongSats signed up for the September mission.  Most sign up late so there’s no telling how many there will be.

The team worked on making deck holders for the PongSats and balancing Away 68.  Most of the systems are complete for all four vehicle. It’s down to the 6000 details.

The High Racks for the September PongSat mission are coming together.

Here’s a great article ay the io9 website:

Crowdfund a children’s time travel novella, student projects launched into space and more

We’ve been posting a whole bunch of pictures on our facebook page. Some old, some new, some never before seen.

JPA Facebook Site

We’ve gotten 26 backers, pledging $830 so far. Looking good!

PongSat Kickstarter Site

We’re on Kickstarter!
Kickstarter is a crowd source funding website. We using it to fund our September 1000 PongSat
education mission.

The only way it works is if people pass it around far and wide so I need a big favor.

Go check it out then share it on your facebook page, your linkedin site and anywhere else you can. Tell
everybody you know.

Let gets this mission in the air!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/1000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space

Our MicroSat launcher Model E rocket flying in West Texas.

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The view on board Tandem five minutes after lift off.