[karc] Fw: Queen's Balloon Meeting
- From: "Les Lindstrom" <les.lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <karc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:08:57 -0400
Balloon sitrep - If any can make it to Queens for the de-brief feel free to
attend.
More to follow
Les
----- Original Message -----
From: 4krh@xxxxxxxxxx
To: Les Lindstrom
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Queen's Balloon Meeting
Hey Les
We're really sorry about that. We had just come off an all nighter getting this
thing ready and we forgot to bring your phone numbers up North with us.
So if your not completely furious with us..
We are doing our presentation tomorrow at 4:30 in Stirling Hall, theater D.
Everyone is welcome.
If you've been watching the balloon online you probably saw it landed south of
the border. Just as we were leaving to retreive it we checked once more and it
had moved deep into the Adirondacks. How it did this is completely unexplained.
Presumably the balloon would have popped upon the first landing where it
transmitted for 3 hours after landing.
Evan and myself (this is Robbie typing) drove down 6 hours, hiked another 2
into the mountains and found the balloon against what I think are incredible
odds. We have your transmitter and 627 incredible photos safe back in kingston.
If you can't make it tomorrow we can get everything back to you along with a
DVD of the pictures and movies from the launch and flight at your convinience.
We updated the transmission frequency to once every 21s. As expected the gps
stopped working at 20km and we lost contact for awhile. By some miracle the
transmitter powered back on once it had moved down to the Adirondacks which
allowed us to find everything. Big learning experience for all of us.
Hope to see you guys there tomorrow
Rob
a few of us will be here for the summer, we are strongly considering the
possibilty of launching another mission with more cameras and possibly with
some cooler on board equipment. If any of your guys are interested in working
on this, let us know.
----- Original Message -----
From: Les Lindstrom <les.lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:16 pm
Subject: Re: Queen's Balloon Meeting
To: 4krh@xxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks for keeping us in the loop!
>
> Here is where the balloon is (probably at altitude as the GPS
> has stopped updating!
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