Here is the link to the Ustream video account that will show live video from the balloon flight: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ascent-balloon The video stream will remain inactive until this [...]
Below is the link to the APRS radio network that will allow you to track Saturday’s launch. A Google Map view will open showing the balloon’s most recently update location. During [...]
Last night the students from Blue Valley and Longview met at the HMS Beagle store in Parkville and very nearly completed the construction of the payload package. After the meeting last week they [...]
Photos leading up to launch this Saturday, October 1st at 11 AM. Here are 4 more photos from the design and build sessions. These photos were taken using balloon’s onboard DSLR camera [...]
As we countdown the final days until launch, some of our blog followers may be wondering where the heck you get a balloon big enough to lift 6 pounds of equipment 100,000 feet? Here’s some [...]
Ascent Planning 19 September: HMS Beagle in Parkville The planning meeting last night included 7 high school students from the Blue Valley School District CAPS program, and 3 students from the [...]
Dan, Cyan, and I met for a while at the Planetarium yesterday evening. We looked at several variations of the images that Fred took with the fisheye lens on the Canon DSLR. We agreed that the [...]
Look Up as Kansas City Reaches for the Stars Critically acclaimed ensemble partners with engineers and students to photograph Kansas City from 100,000 feet up Dark Matter launches its Rocket [...]
This past Monday we had a very productive meeting at the HMS Beagle store in Parkville. In attendance were 4 Longview College students, as well as John (Beagle), Vince (MakeKC), Fred and Richard [...]
