{"id":5864,"date":"2014-06-29T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2014-06-29T19:32:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T19:32:21","slug":"three-flights-lots-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=5864","title":{"rendered":"Three Flights, Lots of Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 4th we flew three high altitude missions. We carried 800 PongSat student experiments and ten MiniCube payloads. We also conducted ATO engine and flight control experiments and telemetry experiments.<\/p>\n<p>All the flight went really well. One balloon didn&#8217;t go as high as we wanted but we still exceeded all the mission objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the altitudes:<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1404066930103_28308\">Away 97:\u00a0\u00a0 98,944 feet<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1404066930103_28307\">Away 98:\u00a0\u00a0 67,011 feet<\/div>\n<div>Away 99:\u00a0\u00a0 103,337 feet<\/div>\n<div>It took a couple of days but all vehicles were recover safe and sound. Nearly 900 people had experiments, projects or some kind of payload aboard the three flights.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A97-98Night_before_prep3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5871\" title=\"A97-98Night_before_prep3\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A97-98Night_before_prep3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Kevin_antenna_prep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5872\" title=\"Kevin_antenna_prep\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Kevin_antenna_prep-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A97-98_prep1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5873\" title=\"A97-98_prep1\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A97-98_prep1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A97-98in_Flight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5874\" title=\"A97-98in_Flight\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A97-98in_Flight-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away97-98-launch3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5878\" title=\"Away97-98 launch3\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away97-98-launch3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away98_in_flight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5879\" title=\"Away98_in_flight\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away98_in_flight-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A97_miniCubeCam21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5882\" title=\"A97_miniCubeCam2\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A97_miniCubeCam21-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away98-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5883\" title=\"Away98-2\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away98-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away99_up_top_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5884\" title=\"Away99_up_top_1\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away99_up_top_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A98-97_PongSat_box1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5887\" title=\"A98-97_PongSat_box\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A98-97_PongSat_box1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away97_FlightPath2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5888\" title=\"Away97_FlightPath2\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Away97_FlightPath2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 4th we flew three high altitude missions. We carried 800 PongSat student experiments and ten MiniCube payloads. We also conducted ATO engine and flight control experiments and telemetry experiments. All the flight went really well. One balloon didn&#8217;t go as high as we wanted but we still exceeded all the mission objectives. 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