RaptorTech’s goal was to drop a glider from the edge of space, and with a Raspberry Pi and a high-altitude weather balloon, their vision became a reality. Dropping a glider from 10km with a high-altitude weather balloon The goal of this project was to drop a glider from the edge of space using a high altitude weather balloon.
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Gliding to earth with the Raspberry Pi Zero
Hackaday Cat Compels Raspberry Pi Flight Tracker Hackaday He used a Raspberry Pi and a software defined radio dongle to decode the ADS-B signals coming from nearby aircraft. Picking up the signals and capturing them is easy thanks to the wide availability of USB radios and a program called Dump1090. However ..
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Cat Compels Raspberry Pi Flight Tracker – Hackaday
Will bacteria-laden high-altitude balloons help us find life on Mars? Today’s eclipse should bring us closer to an answer. image c/o NASA / Ames Research Center / Tristan Caro The Eclipse Ballooning Project Having learned of the Eclipse Ballooning Project set to take place today across the USA, a team at NASA couldn’t miss the opportunity to harness the high-flying project for their own experiments.
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Hunting for life on Mars assisted by high-altitude balloons
Over the next three days, we have 30 educators arriving at Pi Towers to learn how to build, launch, and track a High Altitude Balloon (HAB). For the uninitiated, Skycademy 2016 is our second CPD event which provides experience of launching balloons to educators, showing them how this can be used for an inspiring, project-based learning experience. This is my first year preparing for Skycademy, and it has been a steep but worthwhile learning curve
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Skycademy 2016
James Dougherty, co-founder and owner of Real Flight Systems, was looking at how to increase the performance of his high-altitude rockets… These types of rockets… yeah… James’s goal was to build a ‘plug and run’ video system within a rocket, allowing high-definition video to be captured throughout the entirety of the flight. He also required a fully functioning Linux system that would allow for the recording of in-flight telemetry.
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Rocket Man
Liz: As some of you clever people have pointed out, the new Pi Zero with camera connector might have been designed with one person very much in mind. That person’s Dave “high-altitude ballooning” Akerman
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A new high-altitude ballooning record
Space Ref (press release) NASA's Raspberry Pi -based Pi-Sat Cubesat Space Ref (press release) The Pi-Sat is based on the popular Raspberry Pi single-board computer.
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NASA’s Raspberry Pi-based Pi-Sat Cubesat – Space Ref (press release)
Geeky Gadgets Time Peake On The ISS With The Raspberry Pi Astro Pi Flight Unit In Space (video) Geeky Gadgets British ESA astronaut Tim Peake currently stationed on the International Space Station (ISS) has sent a new video back from the space station showing how the Raspberry Pi powered Astro Pi units, Ed and Izzy are performing running children's …
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Time Peake On The ISS With The Raspberry Pi Astro Pi Flight Unit In Space (video) – Geeky Gadgets
If you follow us on Twitter , you may have seen some pictures of me standing next to important looking people in suits, handing out Raspberry Pi kits on Tuesday. This was the launch event for an educational project we’ve been working on with the British Embassy in Tallinn over the last few months.
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Raspberry Pi in Estonia project launch
The road to space is long and winding, but the two Astro Pi flight units are almost there! The next thing for us after this is to hand over the final payload to the European Space Agency so it can be loaded onto the Soyuz-45S rocket for launch on December 15th with British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake .
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Astro Pi: Mission Update 5 – flight safety testing