{"id":9143,"date":"2014-10-31T01:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T05:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2014-10-31T01:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T05:33:32","slug":"jp-aerospace-sends-6-balloons-and-1700-student-pongsats-to-edge-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9143","title":{"rendered":"JP Aerospace sends 6 balloons and 1700 student PongSats  to edge of space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpaerospace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JP Aerospace<\/a>\u00a0carried out more <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/NearSpace\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Near Space<\/a> flights last weekend:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=6006\" target=\"_d\">Mission Success, Six Flights to the Edge of Space<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Sunday Oct 26th we flew six high altitude balloon to the top of the stratosphere. We carried over 1700 PongSat student experiments, two MiniCubes, twelve HD cameras and a host of in house experiments. We also flew the reward signs for our Kickstarter effort that raised the funds for the flights. The last flight of the day was our 171st mission<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the photos from the flights:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A103-108_launch2-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9148\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=9148\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A103-108_launch2-11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"920,881\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A103-108_launch2-1[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A103-108_launch2-11.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9148\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A103-108_launch2-11-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"A103-108_launch2-1[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A103-108_launch2-11-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A103-108_launch2-11.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Away104-105.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9147\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=9147\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Away104-1051-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Away104-1051.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Away105_PongSats1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9149\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=9149\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Away105_PongSats11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1903,1029\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Away105_PongSats1[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Away105_PongSats11-1024x553.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9149\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Away105_PongSats11-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"Away105_PongSats1[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Away105_PongSats11-300x162.jpg 300w, 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center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JP Aerospace\u00a0carried out more Near Space flights last weekend:\u00a0Mission Success, Six Flights to the Edge of Space\u00a0&#8211; Sunday Oct 26th we flew six high altitude balloon to the top of the stratosphere. We carried over 1700 PongSat student experiments, two MiniCubes, twelve HD cameras and a host of in house experiments. We also flew the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JP Aerospace sends 6 balloons and 1700 student PongSats  to edge of space<\/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":[35,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-near-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2nt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11819,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11819","url_meta":{"origin":9143,"position":0},"title":"JP Aerospace &#8211; Photos from the latest flights to Near Space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"JP Aerospace flew two high altitude airship missions on Nov. 22nd to over 30 km. 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