Team 456 Weather Balloon Launch

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Did you include contact info on/in it?

Yep. The flight prediction model had it landing somewhere near Newellton, LA which is pretty open farm land. Hopefully it landed in a soybean or cotton field rather than a corn field and a farmer will find it before it gets run over by a tractor.

Oddly enough, our utter failure has sparked great enthusiasm about trying again. We are taking the lessons learned and are already planning to try again but next time with redundant tracking systems.

[ChuckDickerson]

Well after our epic fail last year due to a loss of tracking telemetry we gave it another shot this year and it was a huge success! We used redundant tracking systems this time and were able to recover the payload of, among other things, 3 GoPro HD cameras (up, down, and side views). We put together a short video which is available on our team YouTube channel or direct YouTube link. Check it out and let us know what you think! (Be sure and watch in 720p HD)

We had a lot of fun, learned a LOT, and are already planning for bigger and better next time!

[AllenGregoryIV]

Chuck,

That is awesome, the video is very cool. This is an amazing summer project.

- Allen