Balloon Flight - 11/4/2012

Last weekend we successfully launched and recovered a high altitude balloon in Northern California. We used the AdruPilot Mega 2.5 w/Ublox and Xtend radio and it worked perfectly!

The details of our project are here:

http://www.highaltballoon.com/

Enjoy!

Mike

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Permalink Reply by Stephen R Mann on November 10, 2012 at 11:14am

Nice project. I thought I recognized Monterrey Bay in the photos.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on November 10, 2012 at 12:30pm

Mike, awesome mission documentation, much appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Graves on May 6, 2013 at 10:22am

Kicked-off our v2 high altitude balloon build. You can track our progress here: http://www.highaltballoon.com/

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