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.
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 … Continue reading JP Aerospace Kickstarter to fund 2000 student Pongsats for Sept. flight
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.
JP Aerospace makes progress on their latest Ascender airship prototype: Ascender 26 – JPA Blog – The Ascender 26 airship is moving forward in leaps. We’ve built a external stiffener frame out of carbon tubing. We did an inflation last weekend to verify it’s position. Larger image And Building Away – JPA Blog – Last night we continued sewing frame … Continue reading JP Aerospace update on Ascender airship
John Powell of JP Aerospace sends me a notice of their sale on flights of the Minicubes to high altitudes on their balloon and airship missions : MiniCube Flights on Sale! – JP Aerospace Blog – Photo of MiniCubes in flight at 100,000 feet. A MiniCube is a payload container for people to fly their projects on … Continue reading JP Aerospace sale on flights of MiniCubes to NearSpace