{"id":3249,"date":"2016-05-21T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2022-04-05T23:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T06:11:25","slug":"2016-balloons-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=3249","title":{"rendered":"2016 Balloons Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Launch happened the morning of Saturday, May 21st. We had one&nbsp;launch from Moses Lake, WA, which reached approximately 18.5km in altitude. While this is lower than we normally expect burst heights, student experiments were successful. We were successful in recovering the payload string, and received good data throughout the flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight carried a number of student payloads, the 900MHz voice telemetry system, a commercial APRS tracker board, my custom IRIS board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2058\" height=\"1878\" data-id=\"2503\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.19.png 2058w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.19-150x137.png 150w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.19-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.19-768x701.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.19-1024x934.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2058px) 100vw, 2058px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.54.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2008\" height=\"1902\" data-id=\"2502\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.54.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.54.png 2008w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.54-150x142.png 150w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.54-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.54-768x727.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-21.13.54-1024x970.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2008px) 100vw, 2008px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch happened the morning of Saturday, May 21st. We had one&nbsp;launch from Moses Lake, WA, which reached approximately 18.5km in altitude. While this is lower than we normally expect burst heights, student experiments were successful. We were successful in recovering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=3249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-projects","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}