{"id":2093,"date":"2013-05-03T21:19:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T21:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2013-05-03T21:19:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T21:19:28","slug":"jp-aerospace-flies-2400-student-pongsats-to-edge-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2093","title":{"rendered":"JP Aerospace flies 2400 student Pongsats to edge of space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video of recent <a href=\"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/\" target=\"_d\">JP Aerospace<\/a> missions in which 2400 student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpaerospace.com\/pongsat\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">PongSats<\/a> &#8220;flew to the edge of space on six high altitude balloons. The peak altitudes ranged from 92,000 to 103,000 feet&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=5332\" target=\"_d\">PongSat Mission Video &#8211; JP Aerospace Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZobW3nuYNs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video of recent JP Aerospace missions in which 2400 student PongSats &#8220;flew to the edge of space on six high altitude balloons. The peak altitudes ranged from 92,000 to 103,000 feet&#8221;: PongSat Mission Video &#8211; JP Aerospace Blog<\/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":[46,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets","category-near-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-xL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7183,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7183","url_meta":{"origin":2093,"position":0},"title":"JP Aerospace Kickstarter to fund 2000 student Pongsats for Sept. flight","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"John Powell of JP Aerospace tells me they had a successful sale of \u00a0MiniCubes last month (see\u00a0JP Aerospace sale on flights of MiniCubes to NearSpace). 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