Saturday, 19 November 2011

High Altitude Glider

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The prospect of dropping a self-guided (UAV) glider from a high altitude balloon is intriguing.  Adam Melton has been dreaming of this. I d...
Sunday, 23 October 2011

APEX ALPHA flies into Poland

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This is my blog of my experience and photographs having had the privilege, once again, to join the APEX HAB team and CUSF for a HAB launch f...

The APEX ALPHA Operations Centre

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The launch of APEX ALPHA was overseen by the CUSF (Cambridge Spaceflight) group who have pioneered HAB in the UK by developing software and...

APEX ALPHA in the air

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No way back now. APEX ALPHA takes to the air. Payload is working perfectly. The team have made predictions as to where it will end up .... i...

The launch of APEX ALPHA

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The launch of APEX ALPHA was a little fraught due to ground wind. The team had to de-camp to another part of the field because the balloon w...

Helium and Latex Balloon

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Sutton Grammar bring their own supply of Helium to the site (quite an expensive operation) and purchase their own balloons. APEX ALPHA was a...

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As I arrived on site, the boys were doing the final preparation and testing of the payload. For details of the payload design visit the APEX...

PARS HAB Tracking Equipment

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PARS has built home-made Yagi and other types of antenna for tracking at 433MHz. We picked up a radio receiver off eBay, a Yaesu FT-790R. Wo...

APEX ALPHA Launch Preparation

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I arrived late at the Churchill College launch site due to road closures on the M11. But I was in time for the launch. This was the second t...