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Project Ava

High Altitude Balloon Project Based in West Yorkshire run by Anthony Stirk M0UPU.

Overview

Project AVA covers a variety of boards and launches I've done.

Date Mission Balloon Payload Altitude PCB
01/10/11 Ava Hwoyee 1600 1600g UnKnown > 34km Ava
31/03/12 Ava2 Hwoyee 1600 1500g 38257 Ava2
14/03/12 pAva Hwoyee 1600 65g 43337 picoAva
14/03/12 uAva Hwoyee 1200 1000g 39997 µAva

Ava

My first launch was on a very sunny day in October. Due to relative inexperience we didn't put enough gas in the balloon and it ended up floating out to sea. Additionally the GPS failed due to interference from the small video camera. Recovery was initiated by boat and despite the failure of all the electronics due to salt water the pictures were spectacular.

Full write up here : http://ava.upuaut.net/?p=155 , here http://ava.upuaut.net/?p=185 and here http://ava.upuaut.net/?p=212 AVA is always very pink.

Full blog here :

http://ava.upuaut.net

projects/ava.1344523299.txt.gz · Last modified: 2012/08/09 14:41 by upu

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