Jo, these are wonderful! Congratulations on a successful, amazing venture.
I have thought of doing this too, but living on an island means a splash down and tall gumboots :-)
Looking forward to seeing the other result your preparing
Trev
This is an outstanding achievement!!! very well done,its great to see a project like this.
Will be good to see video,and also read details on project,such as CASA permits/details,and if you had any other recording data,as David has asked.
But most of all curious on how you recover downed HAB,and how far you had to travel to get this one?
Also,what costs are involved in this project?,a bit curious,as I leave high quality trail cameras in the bush for up to three months,and there about $500 to $700 each,its a valuable piece of kit to leave on its own (one bloke I know had a tree fall on his,and nothing was reusable).I imagine this HAB project would be an 'up' version of those costs,and could land anywhere.
Finally,is that the bunya mts I can see lower left in #6?
Great photos!!! I'd love to give something like this a go...
Not sure if it's an issue for anyone else, but when trying to access the video on my phone, I get a message saying "this video isn't available in your country" (I'm in Sydney)... Just thought I'd let you know...
Sorry about that, not sure why you can't see it. I changed a few settings on YouTube so I hope you can now see it. If it still causes trouble, make sure your signed in and it should work.
How do you know how high it went when it burst? Did you have other kind of instrumentation in the box besides the camera stuff?
Also how did you work out/estimate the diameter of the balloon up there. Did you manage to follow it with binos while it ascended? Or was it based on initial size at ground level and volume of gas used?
Whoa,you were lucky to get it back! glad it worked out.
What and how does the tracking system work?
Those Bunya mts look so lush,and some high mountains are quite spectacular.
Hope you can get some 'red bull or 'go pro' funding for next launch.
One of the best 'home brew' projects we have seen on this forum.
Thanks Chris,
Yes very happy to get it back, the tracker was a Spot Gen 3 tracker that we had set to transmit its GPS location via satalite every 5 minutes to Spot in America and they put it on their website so we can track it. Pretty simple, it worked great during all our tests but failed on the flight, don't know why. I probably won't use it for any further flights, instead I'm studying up for my Ham radio licence so I can use an APRS setup next time.
The Bunya's are actually a bit further north, the mountains you see are the ones that go from Toowoomba to down passed the NSW border, not sure exactly what they call em.
Haha, yeah it would be nice to have some funding, I reckon it would be awesome to do a flight way Out Back over some desets or something.
Thanks Mark, Justin and Graham, I'm glad you liked it.
How do you know how high it went when it burst? Did you have other kind of instrumentation in the box besides the camera stuff?
Also how did you work out/estimate the diameter of the balloon up there. Did you manage to follow it with binos while it ascended? Or was it based on initial size at ground level and volume of gas used?
The hight was calutated from the flight time (125.4 minutes) and the accent speed (4.5m/s) The accent speed can be calulated from the amount of free lift there is.
I didn't other instruments on board besides the cameras and tracker, my main aim was to capture images of black space.
The size of the balloon is based on the manufactures specs at that hight.
Glad you like the video, I know nothing about video editing so it's a bit of a new thing for me.
