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Postcard from near space

On July 30, 2010, several Picorover components underwent successful testing on a high altitude balloon flight launched within Proyecto DAEDALUS - NS1.


Preparing to launch a high altitude balloon with Picorover components in collaboration with Astronomos de España

Launch place: La Roda (Albacete) NOTAM: 39.1303N 002.1104W
Launch time: 13:40 July 30th, 2010
Total trip 40 km
Max. altitude: 33 km
Landing place: 39.0152513N 2.48516321W
Landing time aprox: 15:45 July 30th, 2010


Postcard from near space!

The flight profile can be seen on the real time telemetry panel.

Following components were attached to the main payload container:
• Picorover MCU: ATmega168, 8 MHz, 16 kbytes, 20 MIPS – OK
• SMD HD camera with ANIKA DSP – FAILED
• microSD card 8 Gbytes – OK
• LiPO batt. 120 mAh, 3.7 V – OK
• Nordic transceiver nRF2401A with Chip Antenna 2.45 GHz – OK
• ADXL326 Accelerometer 3DOF for the counterweight – OK
• Inertial platform based on LIS331HH accelerometer and ITG-3200 gyro plus temperature sensor – OK
• Bluearrow S0251 Microservo – OK


Launch and ascent of the balloon high altitude with Picorover components

The payload was successfully recoverede approximately 40 km from the launch site.


Recovered balloon payload


Time-lapse video of the pre-launch preparations and the launch


Video from onboard camera 1/7 - count down begins at 02:00

I suspect more onboard videos are on the way, keep an eye on the DeadlusProbe channel and their website!


Post flight celebration with views from near space.

There is also a live recording of the launch and the pre-launch preparations on Livestream.




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