JP Aerospace flew two high altitude airship missions on Nov. 22nd to over 30 km. Below are some reports and images from the flights posted on the JP Aerospace blog:
- Mission Success!
- PongSats, Cubesats and Valves
- Away 118 in the Air
- Servo Camera
- Launch of Away 118
- Mission Partners from 104,305 feet
- Touchdown!
Launch of the Away 118 balloon:
The two missions carried
three university payloads, 700 PongSat student experiments, our own balloon valve experiments, a new servo driven camera system and a ceremonial basket from the Sobono Indian Tribe.
The movable servo camera flew on Away 119 and took pictures like this one:
The flights are sponsored by a number of organizations:
The payload packages were recovered intact: