{"id":86,"date":"2020-02-14T02:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T02:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/?p=86"},"modified":"2023-09-07T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:42:29","slug":"successful-launch-and-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Successful Launch and Recovery!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post is super late, but we had a successful launch and payload recovery in Sept 2019!  We launched from the grounds of a public school NW of Waterloo, and landed in wine country, SE of Hamilton, a journey of ~120km, it was in the air for almost exactly 2 hours.  We reached a maximum altitude of 88,405 ft (26,946m). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our knock-off GoPro camera worked great, we have 2h of 4k video of the entire journey up and down.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I1ygXxvPC3k\">Launch Video (2min)<\/a>.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y8RHcGYTxM8\">Landing video (2min)<\/a>.  And, the most spectacular video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kKD-gn-Tf10\">burst video<\/a>, from the maximum height:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kKD-gn-Tf10\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s some awesome photos of our setup and launch: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6475-e1581644783824.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6475-e1581644783824.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6475-e1581644783824-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Checking the radios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6482-e1581644774104.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6482-e1581644774104.jpg 480w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6482-e1581644774104-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Building up the payload chain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6490-e1581644757661.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6490-e1581644757661.jpg 480w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6490-e1581644757661-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Releasing the balloon!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6491-e1581644749173.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6491-e1581644749173.jpg 480w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6491-e1581644749173-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Up up and away!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6496-e1581644704856.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6496-e1581644704856.jpg 480w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6496-e1581644704856-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In the chase car, with radio antenna out the sunroof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6503-e1581644718206.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6503-e1581644718206.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6503-e1581644718206-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Recovery!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Flight_path-1024x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Flight_path-1024x467.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Flight_path-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Flight_path-768x350.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Flight_path.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flight Path (Google Earth, from our logged GPS data)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Download our <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fligh_20190907_4.kml\">Full GPS data<\/a>.  You&#8217;ll need <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/earth\/answer\/21955?hl=en\">Google Earth<\/a> to visualize that (it&#8217;s XML data).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, thanks to Jen for the last-minute rescue of &#8220;oh shit Eric forgot the balloon, we have to turn back and cancel, sorry everyone&#8221;.  Officially this was the Jen Balloon Launch, she&#8217;s the title sponsor :-).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is super late, but we had a successful launch and payload recovery in Sept 2019! We launched from the grounds of a public school NW of Waterloo, and landed in wine country, SE of Hamilton, a journey of ~120km, it was in the air for almost exactly 2 hours. We reached a maximum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}