AU Vidulini part of the Team Synergy Moon last weekend has tested the endurance of some electronics in a flight of a probe hanging under the helium balloon. Last Friday the team gathered from many different parts of Croatia at dr. Anđelko Glivar’s viticulture cottage (and a private astronomical observatory) in Donja Stubica to assembe the H-4 probe. Check the picture gallery!
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The next day was the launch day. We used helium services and a launching meadow of the Meteo observatory of DHMZ (Croatian State Hydrometeorology Institute). Of course, there were last minute adjustments, and what goes with it. Check the gallery!
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As you will see in a long report from www.astrovizija.net - the dedicated balloon had a production failure and had a puncture during filling with gas. The spare balloon was the half size, but nevertheless, served the purpose. But the recovery was the adventure of a kind! The probe landed under the parachute on a branch of the 15 meters high beech in a dense forest!
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Luckily, we’ve got our hands on equipment to realise everything was functional. The GPS and other parameters acquired by instruments are due to study in a detailed report, and a tested resistant equipment. See what H-4 has seen during the flight:
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- The pictures are for public, and data are for geeks - was the end of the day’s joke, when we toasted and shared a bottle of rare TerraN red istrian wine at the end of the day. The press conference with the summary of experiment is going to take place at Zagreb Technical Museum at Friday June 17th noon.
In the meantime enjoy the athmosphere in video: