New Mod Start

1. What new roles will each of you take to make this project a success?
2. What new obstacles / questions do we need to answer?
3. What tests need to been done before launch day?
4. A procedure needs to be written for FAA notification.

Balloon Trajectory Forecast

When it comes closer to the launch period we will find this link to be very important in our launch and flight positioning

Weight of the Otterbox

The Otterbox weighs 563.8g or 1.25lbs, so we are ok, this leaves us with with around 2.55lbs for the size of our balloon. In reference to the balloon, we will actually have a lot more cubic feet of helium than we need as that has been taken care of and will be ready in the next two weeks.

Instamapper Phone Tracking

GPS tracking powered by InstaMapper.com

Update

Phone is operational !! How often do you think we should transmit a signal? We are able to choose the second amount and it will continually run in the background..

Vivian's Blueprint

As we know, there may be some difficulty (or a variety of designs) that we can choose for attaching the balloon to the parachute and the parachute to the payload. Here is Vivian's idea..what do you guys think?

Zoom on camera

For the actual launch we must consider the zoom we are setting the prject off with. The camera can push all the way to a 4x zoom but if we had it there it might blur out the end result so play with it as much as you can and comment on zoom areas you think would work

- Mac. K