The parachute slowed down the fall sufficiently for the capsule to stay together in one piece. The Motorola i290 managed to send out its gps location before landing. Although our the electronics suffered no damage (low impact velocity), the cell phone antenna burrowed into the ground upon landing, preventing further transmission of gps location.
We were also lucky that the capsule landed in a soft-earthed construction field with a clear view of the sky. Retrieval would definitely have been a much more difficult process had our device landed in a lake or in the forest.
Found it! Simply amazing
Inspecting the capsule
- Checking the exciting photos!
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All I can just say, wow
just like other people keep saying about the safety thing and this thing landing…ive dropped many many styrofaom beer coolers in my time down 10 feet flights of stairs and off the backs of 7 foot backs of pickup trucks full of beer and watched them smash to pieces…this thing fell 90 THOUSAND FEET AND REMAINED IN TACT…without damaging its contents..layoff….obviously the parachute was able to slow the descent to the point where any damage that could have been caused was kept to a minimum….my styrofoam beer coolers full of beer falling down a flight of stairs burst into pieces…this thing fell from the curviture of the earth and stayed in tact…what more can i say?
A beer cooler filled with 20lbs of unsecured beer cans is a different story than a <4lb rigid payload.
Agreed.
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Amazing — Love the photos and the article in the Boston Globe today….! This is really inspiring!
But: Why aren’t you wearing shoes on the construction site?
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My partner and I are thinking of doing this for our science fair but we live in Oahu, Hawaii. At it’s longest it is 44 miles wide and 30 miles long, which is a huge problem considering its highly likely that the contraption will land in the ocean. Would it be successful if we used some kind of fishing line or string to hold it? I know that there was some discussion about this but we just want to know is it possible? We also have some safety concerns about that particular method and maybe the project itself. We don’t want to cause any damage. Would you recommend that we abandon the project all together or persevere?
as to the string/fishing line.
90+ thousand feet of line would almost certainly break under its own weight.
even if you used braided line like spiderwire, it still would be too much weight for the strength.
-Ezra Hilyer
Having a line connected to your ballon would require you to have to life that much line weight as well.
Even so, it would be illegal for you to do so. (FAA regs)
Here is what you do…produce as much lift/ft lbs as possible so assent is screaming fast…for decent use already deployed long streams to mark and slow it down .
The faster it goes up and down, the less travel it will have laterially (ground track)
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Wow this is wery cool. The Pictures was Amazing. Go on Guys.
I haver Read it on the German Magazine PM.
Hi What they Doing is very Cool. With a so Small Budget are they
doing this I also can say Wow!!!! Good Luck!!!
Congratulations from Brazil !!!! Very good job !
how long did ithe decent take?
i know math to figure out the force on landing
Hey what sized parachute did you use to slow down the decent of the capsule?
How far from where you launched did your equipment land?
WOW! Absolutely fantastic! Imagine, sending a cooler of beer to 90,000 feet and having it fall back to Earth undamaged!!! You didn’t say what kind it was.. I’m so curious.
guys can you tell me does the tracking software GPS work within metres or 1000 metres?