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Postcard from near space

On July 30, 2010, several Picorover components underwent successful testing on a high altitude balloon flight launched within Proyecto DAEDALUS - NS1.
Preparing to launch a high altitude balloon with Picorover components in collaboration with Astronomos de España
Launch place: La Roda (Albacete) NOTAM: 39.1303N 002.1104W Launch time: 13:40 July 30th, 2010 Total trip 40 km Max. altitude: 33 km Landing place: 39.0152513N 2.48516321W Landing time aprox: 15:45 July 30th, 2010
Postcard from near space!
The flight profile can be seen on the real time telemetry panel. Following components were attached to the main payload container: • Picorover MCU: ATmega168, 8 MHz, 16 kbytes, 20 MIPS – OK • SMD HD camera with ANIKA DSP – FAILED • microSD card 8 Gbytes – OK • LiPO batt. 120 mAh, 3.7 V – OK • Nordic transceiver nRF2401A with Chip Antenna 2.45 GHz – OK • ADXL326 Accelerometer 3DOF for the counterweight – OK • Inertial platform based on LIS331HH accelerometer and ITG-3200 gyro plus temperature sensor – OK • Bluearrow S0251 Microservo – OK
Launch and ascent of the balloon high altitude with Picorover components
The payload was successfully recoverede approximately 40 km from the launch site.
Recovered balloon payload
Time-lapse video of the pre-launch preparations and the launch
Video from onboard camera 1/7 - count down begins at 02:00
I suspect more onboard videos are on the way, keep an eye on the DeadlusProbe channel and their website!
Post flight celebration with views from near space.
There is also a live recording of the launch and the pre-launch preparations on Livestream.
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