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JPA were tasked once again to show that space is for everybody!   On National Margarita Day we send blenders, cameras and a particular famous mix to the edge of space.

The team travel to Arizona for this flight. Balloons were flown, margarita were mixed and frozen by the atmosphere itself and amazing video was created.

This brings our flight total to 176.

The testing just keeps rolling on.

Today we’re working on all the little odds and ends of the Ascender 26 airship. The team is getting ready for the upcoming float test.

Our high altitude work is just to top of a large pyramid of research going on at JPA. We just completed the 178th firing our our hypersonic shock tube.

The shock tube is a short duration high speed wind tunnel. We use it for developing the plasma drag reduction systems in the ATO program.

We conducted our 110th MHD firing Saturday.  We got a great electrical power output. The motor had an odd start up.In the first fraction of a second you can see the motor throwing fuel fragments. By the time we get a 1/4 second into the firing the motor settled down into it’s normal pattern.