Congratulations to JP Aerospace on a successful Kickstarter to fund the flights of 2000 student PongSats to near space: 2000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space by John Powell — Kickstarter.
Student Experiment at the edge of space.
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Kickstarter for 2000 student PongSats needs your help
The Kickstarter to send 2000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space (see earlier post) is close but needs a push in the next week to reach their target before the time runs out. Help JP Aerospace with their campaign to fly 2000 student made Pongsats to Near Space:
JP Aerospace and PongSats in MAKE
The latest issue of MAKE magazine has an article about JP Aerospace and their PongSats program: Flight of the Space-Grazing Ping Pong Balls – MAKE
Don’t forget the JPA crowdfunding campaign to fund the flight of 2000 PongSats for school kids this fall: 2000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space by John Powell — Kickstarter.
JP Aerospace Kickstarter to fund 2000 student Pongsats for Sept. flight
John Powell of JP Aerospace tells me they had a successful sale of MiniCubes last month (see JP Aerospace sale on flights of MiniCubes to NearSpace).
Their latest outreach effort is a Kickstarter to fund the flight of 2000 Pongsats in September: 2000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space by John Powell — Kickstarter
This time instead of one thousand PongSats we’re flying two thousand. We have just over 14,000 PongSats flown so far. I think that’s more student payloads then the rest of the world’s space programs combined! The PongSats are getting more and more complex. We now get PongSats with GPS’s and cameras in them and some even made on 3D printers.
(To be clear, Pongsat flights cost nothing to the students or their schools.)
Here’s the Kickstarter video:
JP Aerospace in Air & Space Magazine
Check out the excellent article by Mark Karpel about JP Aerospace and their near space exploits: To Space (Okay, Near-Space) in a Balloon: A little company dreams of replacing rocket power with buoyancy – Air & Space Magazine.