{"id":839,"date":"2013-02-25T05:31:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T05:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2013-02-25T05:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T05:31:56","slug":"students-of-space-hub-southeast-fly-pongsats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Students of Space Hub Southeast fly PongSats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpaerospace.com\" target=\"_d\">JP Aerospace<\/a> for many years has flown for free lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpaerospace.com\/pongsat\/index.htm\" target=\"_d\">PongSats<\/a> with miniature payloads from students from all over the world. Now some <a href=\"http:\/\/spacehubsoutheast.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">high school students<\/a> in Atlanta are expanding on JPA&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacehubsoutheast.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Space Hub Southeast | Furthering the J.P. Aerospace PongSat program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacehubsoutheast.com\/pongsat-info\/\" target=\"_d\">PongSat Program | Space Hub Southeast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Space Hub Southeast is run by four high school students, Beau, Meryl, John and Nathaniel. \u00a0We work to make the program possible, along with developing a newly applied \u201cPongSat\u201d outreach program. The club, built on a service-learning platform, is designed to both excite and educate kids about the upper atmosphere. Each year, we help kids build high altitude weather balloons, so they begin to learn about conducting experiments and the properties of space. For each of us, this is what we truly love doing, and we take great pride in our work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JP Aerospace for many years has flown for free lots of PongSats with miniature payloads from students from all over the world. Now some high school students in Atlanta are expanding on JPA&#8217;s work: Space Hub Southeast | Furthering the J.P. Aerospace PongSat program PongSat Program | Space Hub Southeast Space Hub Southeast is run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Students of Space Hub Southeast fly PongSats<\/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":[22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","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-dx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22450,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22450","url_meta":{"origin":839,"position":0},"title":"PongSat Flight Program to fly a million student projects to edge of space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from JP Aerospace: PongSat Flight Program Aims to Fly 1 Million Student Experiments to the Edge of Space Rancho Cordova, CA August 4, 2020 - An organization in California is planning to fly a million ping pong balls to the edge of space. 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