projects:picoatlas:picoatlasx
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PicoAtlas X
Aims
- To repeat the success of PicoAtlas IX
- Launch early morning to look at how timing affects float period
Improvements
- Add more $$$$$ after radio reset to avoid problems decoding the first string
Launch Conditions
- Ground windspeed < 5mph
- Flight path keeps it within radio rx range for 24hours
Launch
- Easy launch, filled balloon and released
- Perfect weather, <5mph winds, hot day, clear skies
- GPS seemed a bit noisy may have been due to desensitised + power saving mode
- Started floating around 5km but kept climbing very slowly, sprung a leak and descended over Norfolk
- Not yet recovered.
Flight Data
Conclusions
- Harder to float the balloon during the day (however if you manage it it should last for a long time as you'd get a whole day, then night and then potentially another day)
- The flight code works well, it was nice to have battery data
- Need to have a way of exposing the antenna without it being desensitised
projects/picoatlas/picoatlasx.txt · Last modified: 2013/07/07 07:02 by jcoxon