The Cope Brothers, Jeremy and Jason, will be hosting the Hack Chat on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at noon PST.
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Jeremy and Jason Cope have only recently caught the high-altitude ballooning (HAB) bug, but they've been racking up the successes and pushing the edge of space with interesting and varied missions.
Their first flight just barely missed the 100,000 foot (30,000 meter) mark and carried a simple payload package of cameras and GPS instruments and allowed them to reach their goal of photographing the Earth's curvature.
Flight 2 had a similar payload but managed to blow through the 100K foot altitude, capturing stunning video of the weather balloon breaking. Their most recent flight carried a more complex payload package, consisting of the usual camera and GPS but also a flight data recorder of their own devising, as well as a pair of particle detectors to measure the change in flux of subatomic particles with increasing altitude. That flight "only" reached 62,000 ft (19,000 meters) but managed to hitch a ride on the jet stream that nearly took the package out to sea.
The Cope brothers will be joining the Hack Chat to talk about the exciting field of DIY high-altitude ballooning and the challenges of getting a package halfway to space (depending on how that's defined). Please join us as we discuss:
- The basics of flight - balloons, rigging, payload protection, tracking, and recovery;
- Getting started on the cheap;
- Making a flight into a mission with interesting and innovative ideas for payload instrumentation;
- Will hobbyist HABs ever break the Kármán Line? and
- What's in store for this year's Global Space balloon Challenge?
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