{"id":7183,"date":"2014-04-01T17:56:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2014-04-01T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T17:56:27","slug":"jp-aerospace-kickstarter-to-fund-2000-student-pongsats-for-sept-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7183","title":{"rendered":"JP Aerospace Kickstarter to fund 2000 student Pongsats for Sept. flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Powell of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpaerospace.com\" target=\"_blank\">JP Aerospace<\/a> tells me they had a successful sale of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/minicube\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">MiniCubes<\/a> last month (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6484\" target=\"_d\">JP Aerospace sale on flights of MiniCubes to NearSpace<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Their latest outreach effort is a Kickstarter to fund the flight of 2000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpaerospace.com\/pongsat\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Pongsats<\/a> in September:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1569698176\/2000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space\" target=\"_d\">2000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space by John Powell \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This time instead of one thousand PongSats we&#8217;re flying two thousand.\u00a0We have just over 14,000 PongSats flown so far. I think that&#8217;s more student payloads then the rest of the\u00a0world&#8217;s space programs combined! The PongSats are getting more and more complex. We now get PongSats with GPS&#8217;s and cameras in them and some even made on 3D printers.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>(To be clear, Pongsat flights cost nothing to the students or their schools.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Kickstarter video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1569698176\/2000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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). Their latest outreach effort is a Kickstarter to fund the flight of 2000 Pongsats in September:\u00a02000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space by John Powell \u2014 Kickstarter This time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JP Aerospace Kickstarter to fund 2000 student Pongsats for Sept. flight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[35,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-education","category-near-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1RR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7306,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7306","url_meta":{"origin":7183,"position":0},"title":"JP Aerospace and PongSats in MAKE","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest issue of MAKE magazine has an article about\u00a0JP Aerospace\u00a0and their PongSats\u00a0program:\u00a0Flight 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:\u00a02000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space by John Powell \u2014\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DIY space&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DIY space","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7578,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7578","url_meta":{"origin":7183,"position":1},"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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