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Pegasus High Altitude Balloon Project

Based in Eastern UK, student run.

Uses a gps/gumstix/nokia mobile phone system and parachute for descent.

  • Pegasus I - 15/10/05 - success, reached 66,000ft traveled 63miles (Suffolk to Lincolnshire)
  • Pegasus II - 4/03/06 - contact lost after launch, feared to be lost in North Sea
  • Pegasus III - 15/07/06 - communication test bed (explore alternative methods of communication)
  • Pegasus IV - simple payload using a Motorola WR850G as a flight computer.

Run by James Coxon.

projects/pegasus.1162974840.txt.gz · Last modified: 2008/07/19 23:31 (external edit)

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