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High Altitude Balloon Experiment Programme (HABEP)
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
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
- Develop an auto-piloted glider to return payloads from high altitude (a Near Space Shuttle)
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