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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

We have a Landing!!!!



After a stressful hour with no GPS readings, we picked up the signal again as the payload began its descent!!


We will have to do some research to see why we did not get readings at higher altitude.  Likely a temperature issue or maybe it was not in contact with the satellites.


We didn't hear from the Space Balloon for over an hour while it was at altitude.  We started to get readings again as it descended. The trajectory was pretty close to the projected path from the computer model and the flight was a little shorter. 


AND WE HAVE A LANDING!!


Looks like the space balloon landed in a field not far from a road.  We were actually hoping for a little more exciting retrieval but we are not complaining.  We are about 20 minutes away!!  Stay Tuned...

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