After 4 hours of driving and 300 miles on the road, Fred and Bob found and successfully retrieved the payload capsule! It was hanging approximately 20 feet in the air, suspended in a tree. A [...]
Touchdown tonight at approximately 5:58 PM CST. Apogee of approximately 87,000 feet reached over the Ted Shanks Wildlife Management Area on the border between Missouri and Illinois. Touchdown [...]
It’s currently 4:05 PM in Kansas City and the balloon has been flying about 3.5 hours! The winds are really carrying it and, if we get lucky, should give us an interesting flight view [...]
We are less than an hour to the second launch of Ascent. Here is the current forecasted flight path: Winds are easing a bit with the forecasted flight now covering 71 miles. Estimated landing [...]
Wednesday morning, 11/9, we will once again launch a high altitude weather balloon with cameras on-board. This is the link to use to follow the flight live using the GPS signal. . [...]
Performance artist Julia Vering premièred her “You Live Here Too” project last Friday afternoon at the retirement home where she works. Not only was the room filled with venerable old souls, [...]
Sometime in the next week or so we will fly another payload package with a high altitude weather balloon. As with the first flight the payload will consist of GPS for tracking online, and 3 [...]
2011 Rocket Grants juror Ulysses Jenkins has been involved in several exhibitions and performances associated with the Pacific Standard Time events in California this fall. His participation in [...]
