{"id":7306,"date":"2014-04-12T01:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T01:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2014-04-12T01:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T01:55:53","slug":"jp-aerospace-and-pongsats-in-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7306","title":{"rendered":"JP Aerospace and PongSats in MAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of MAKE magazine<\/a> has an article about\u00a0JP Aerospace<\/a>\u00a0and their PongSats<\/a>\u00a0program:\u00a0Flight of the Space-Grazing Ping Pong Balls – MAKE<\/a><\/p>\n

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 Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Kickstarter.<\/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-7306","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-1TQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7183,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7183","url_meta":{"origin":7306,"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). 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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "DIY space"","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":7306,"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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Over 18,000 have already flown.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Education"","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=22"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pongsat-david1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7467,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7467","url_meta":{"origin":7306,"position":3},"title":"Kickstarter for 2000 student PongSats needs your help","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Kickstarter to send 2000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space\u00a0(see earlier post) is close but needs a push in the next week to reach their target before the time runs out. \u00a0Help JP Aerospace\u00a0with their campaign to fly 2000 student made Pongsats\u00a0to Near Space:","rel":"","context":"In "Education"","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=22"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2093,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2093","url_meta":{"origin":7306,"position":4},"title":"JP Aerospace flies 2400 student Pongsats to edge of space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a video of recent JP Aerospace missions in which 2400 student PongSats \"flew to the edge of space on six high altitude balloons. 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