{"id":1658,"date":"2013-04-13T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2013-04-13T02:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:11:17","slug":"jp-aerospace-flies-2000-pongsats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"JP Aerospace flies 2000 PongSats"},"content":{"rendered":"

JP Aerospace<\/a> had a productive week:\u00a0 Mission Success! – JP Aerospace Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

We flew just over 2000 PongSat student experiments, the most we\u2019ve ever flown at once. All five launches were in winds that were steady 20 with gusts to 46 mph.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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JP Aerospace had a productive week:\u00a0 Mission Success! – JP Aerospace Blog We flew just over 2000 PongSat student experiments, the most we\u2019ve ever flown at once. All five launches were in winds that were steady 20 with gusts to 46 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-near-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-qK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7578,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7578","url_meta":{"origin":1658,"position":0},"title":"JP Aerospace successfully crowd-funds 2000 student PongSats","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to JP Aerospace on a successful Kickstarter to fund the flights of \u00a02000 student PongSats to near space:\u00a02000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space by John Powell \u2014 Kickstarter. 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