This is from about eight years ago.
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Building Up PongSat Carriers
The team put in a long day Saturday on fins and tracking systems.
Sewing Fin Sails New Fin Frame Rods
Fins in there folded position.
Anthony working on a telemetry system and Kevin mounting a balloon release system on Away 48.
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The Thousand PongSat Mission
On April 9th more student experiments than have ever been flown at one time ever are heading to the edge of space.
We are going to use three vehicles to carry them. By spreading them across three vehicles we can both give the PongSats a good high ride (over 100,000 feet) and do it with a fast climb rate. We need to climb fast for spring launches to keep the downrange short. It’s awful muddy out there this time of year.
Introducing Away 47, 48 and 49:
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New Stuff for the Store
We’re now selling the “Floating to Space” book directly. We’re selling it $2.95 below list and we throw in free shipping!
We’ve also added a PongSat Level Donation option of $500. We’re still working on closing the budget for the upcoming PongSats mission. We could sure use some help.
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Fly Me Away
This isn’t JPA but it is to great not to post.
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There was a crew on board and it flew to 10,000 feet.
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Materials Experimenting
We started using honeycomb cardboard as High Rack decks. Today we tried bending and curving the material to see what other uses we can put it to. We already intend to slightly curve it and use it as upper deck structures in Ascender inner helium cells. Hmmmm… Art Deco High Racks anyone?
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Decks and Code
High Rack assembly continued on Saturday. The team mounted the main decks to the carbon frames and assembled sets of the small top decks. We’re also preparing a rockoon mission. That mission is further along and in the code debugging stage.
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PongSats at MSNBC
Alan Boyle wrote a great article on PongSats at the Cosmic Log:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/03/6182388-more-space-shots-for-shuttle-fans
