nytimes.com Don Piccard, a Pioneer Who Soared, Is Dead at 94 By Penelope Green He was balloon royalty, the son of scientist parents who reached the stratosphere. He went on to build balloons — and set

Here's the Twitter feed showing some of the students, teachers and hams launching the 11 pico balloons today. https://twitter.com/search?q=BalloonLaunchLive&src=typed_query The main page of the Smiths

The Smithsonian Institute launched 11 of my APRS Skytracker boards from schools across the US an hour or two ago. Here's the Habhub link showing all of the balloons in the air: https://tracker.habhub.

Please read and fill this out if you object. https://hamradioprep.com/fcc/ In August, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in Docket 20-270 that would create a new fee of $50 for ham radio l

Hey Gang, I'm working with a student team that wants to use a Rockblock 9603 on a HAB flight next year. They're wondering if the (large) balloon above would cause any issues with the "view of the sky"

Hello long lost friends, I've come to terms with the fact that I will not be able to consume 65 balloons before they turn to dust. So, I'm ebaying some, at pretty good discount below new prices: Kaymo

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Example of the information in the old Web site. Keith, WA0̷TJT Consider joining: https://groups.io/g/NCM

I started a central photo gallery of past GPSL events. I've made it through my personal photo galleries but I have a lot of years that are completely missing. If anyone would like to share some of the

We are thinking about what project we want to take on this winter We have considered streaming video from the balloon. I really liked that idea but no one else did. So now we are thinking about attemp

Videos of the talks for AHAC 2020 conference will be here. The Workshop on Lora is already up on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/c/StratoballooningOrg/videos - Bill WB8ELK

https://www.stratoballooning.org/ahac-2020 If you are interested in attending the afternoon sessions, email me for the link. My callsign at AOL.com - Bill WB8ELK

Evening all, Just a heads up we are moving the physical servers that host the Habhub platform this coming Thursday the 17th of November. All services will be affected and they will go offline from abo

I am not seeing the model data update today. I'm thinking about a launch Saturday. Larry KJ6PBS

It has been a LONG LONG time since I have calculated a burst altitude. Let me see if I am STILL doing it correctly.. I did a calculation on a tiny 100 gram Kamont balloon. Now i know in theroy this wo

James, It appears EC is now using GPS sondes, and the radiosonde_auto_rx software (which can be run on an RPi) should be able to decode positions if not the full telemetry stream. If they work like th

I forgot about this being a live streaming event exclusively on Youtube "Originals." It happened yesterday in Page, AZ. He reached ~ 24,900 feet ASL before cutting loose. Curious if any skydivers are

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I was looking at the ARHAB page for clubs and organizations that do HAB. Evidently it is not up to date. I am moving to Missouri in the next few months to either the Sedalia or Lincoln MO area. I have

geez 20+ years ago I had a .BAS program where if I put into it my lat/long/alt, and a second lat/long/alt it would spit out a az and el of where the balloon would be in my sky. is there a way to do th