If you read the pre-flight article, you’d remember that I ended by saying, “Let’s hope for the Luck o’ the Irish for the ole’ balloon!” As it turned out, this balloon flight definitely needed the luck of the Irish. After a perfect launch into a blue-bird Colorado sky, we casually began to follow the SPOT […]
Archive: March, 2010
St Patrick’s Day Balloon Launch
That’s right, the balloon team is back at it again! This time, we are launching a balloon as part of an Education and Public Outreach (EPO) effort at LASP in conjunction with Arvada High School. The expected launch time is 9:30am MDT. The payload has a few extra goodies this time based on the open-source […]
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