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-====== High Altitude Balloon Experiment Programme (HABEP) ======
+[[projects:have]]
-Based in Hampshire, UK.
-An attempt at a cheap, reliable, and reusable high altitude platform.
-Modular design, aimed to be adaptable to a variety of missions, including balloons and gliders.
-===== Components =====
-  * <del>[[ideas:Magnetic cutdown]]</del>
-===== Payload To-do List =====
-==== Currently being done ====
-  * Interface GPS with flight computer via RS-232
-==== Outstanding ====
-  * Buy radio transmitter and interface with flight computer
-  * Finish programming ground telemetry downlink software
-==== Complete ====
-  * Build and program camera shutter trigger
-  * Interface with Google Maps API.
-  * Build cut-down device (mc- did)
-===== HABEP-1 =====
-Currently scheduled for completion by mid April. **Launch 26/27 April.**
-Flight objectives:
-  * Fly a small payload to the edge of space
-  * Take hi-res digital images
-  * Transmit and download GPS position and velocity data throughout the flight
-  * Make a soft landing by parachute with all on-board components intact.
-  * Reuse and fly again!
-===== Future missions =====
-Take into account these are just vague, very ambitious plans:
-  * Stay (neutrally) buoyant at the edge of space for up to a month
-  * Develop a helium reuse system, reusing the buoyancy technology
-  * Rendezvous and dock a glider or payload with retrorockets to a buoyant platform
-  * Assemble a near space platform at high altitude
-  * Use solar panels as a sole power source