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High Altitude Balloon NS1b Recovered

Even the large quantity of faults in this mission, finally, in September 19th at 8am (local time Spain) we recovered the probe. Abnormally, the flight took 5 hours and 30 minutes. When we found the probe we saw why. Looks like that the balloon doesn't burst and the descent was abnormally slow. In fact, was so long that the recovery team needed to refuel the cars. This is why few minutes before to landing we lost communications with the probe but the beacon sent the coordinates of the landing point as you can see in the picture below. The main computer (Arduino) failed and no experiments have got tracking but we recovered the camera and hope soon we will see night photos in the night sky in near space.
In the following picture you can see how the control panel looks like. When a high altitude balloon takes place, you can follow in real time here: http://code.google.com/p/moon-20/
You can see details in here: http://wiki.teamfrednet.org/index.php/Balloon_Flights#2010-Septiembre-18... Next launch is scheduled in November. Next time we will go to the space and beyond, every time closer to the Moon. Stay tuned for more... Joshua Tristancho
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