projects:pegasus
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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.
- Pegasus V - 28/04/07 - Gumstix based, testing 434mhz radio transmitting morse and digital compass.
Run by James Coxon. jacoxon@googlemail.com
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