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Lucky 7's
I haven't checked to see if this is true, but a radio announcer this morning mentioned about people planning to gamble today since it was 7/7/07 or Lucky 7's. So anyone go gambling today or have a bit of good luck? -
Mike Rowe <--> Colin Ferguson
Anyone else see a similarity between Mike Rowe and Colin Ferguson or atleast the character Sheriff Carter he plays on Eureka? They've been playing Dirty Jobs and Eureka all day and I've been bouncing back and forth while working on this program. It's more than their sort of bumbling with science. Something about their mannerisms, facial ( Read more... ) -
BamaSat & Stuff
Real quick, the BamaSat went up last Wednesday and was retrieved after a 6 hour search of the Talladega National Forest. Pictures are up on the website. Made it up to 84,000 ft before it popped. More details, and probably a Google Earth plot of the flight, later, like maybe next week. -
Launch delay
Blech. The launch has been delayed until Wednesday. There was some confusion about getting vehicles and the lithium batteries for some of the components haven't arrived, so the launch got pushed back. Snafu 2 is something happened to the new transmitter while they were testing it and the magic blue smoke got released. So it's toast. -
BamaSat 5
If the weather holds up, we're launching BamaSat 5 on Tuesday. This one is for the EE design projects. There's a flight computer for recoding data and will activate the cut-off. There's a new transmitter for tracking the payload. I'm not sure why they decided this, but, instead of separating the whole package from the balloon with the cut-off ( Read more... ) -
BamaSat 4 photos
The photos from yesterday have been posted hereThe first half of the pictures are shots we took, including the launch and scenic spots like the gas station and the Heart of Dixie Train Museum, where we were waiting for an updated location ( Read more... ) -
BamaSat Launch
Well, we launched BamaSat4 at 6:47 CDT, however we seemed to have lost the primary GPS transmitter. Thankfully, we have a secondary. The secondary callsign is KI4SGO and the link is to the tracking site, for anyone interested.
Edit: The primary just came back up. I'm on the chase team to retrieve the payload, so wish us luck. The first 3 ( Read more... )