[islandlabs] Balloon Trajectory Planning
Diane Hill
dhill52 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 3 19:31:33 EST 2010
is there meeting tonight at SB?
--- On Wed, 3/3/10, Burns, William <burns at cshl.edu> wrote:
> From: Burns, William <burns at cshl.edu>
> Subject: Re: [islandlabs] Balloon Trajectory Planning
> To: "Island Labs main mailing list" <list at islandlabs.org>
> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4:03 PM
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> Normal batteries won't hold
> up to the cold of space, so
> yes, we'll be using external
> (lithium) batteries.
> The camera takes AA batteries, so
> those will be lithium as
> well.
> (the batteries are already in the
>
> office)
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> We've got buck/boost
> converters to get to the phones
> desired charging voltage. (5V)
> We've got a variety of them,
> so we could deal w/ just about
> any type of phone.
> Your phone should work w/
> the "better" charger that
> takes 2 AA batteries. (the others only take 1
> battery)
>
> -Bill
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> From:
> list-bounces at islandlabs.org
> [mailto:list-bounces at islandlabs.org] On Behalf Of
> john
> abella
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:55 PM
> To: Island
> Labs main mailing list
> Subject: Re: [islandlabs] Balloon Trajectory
> Planning
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> Yeah, I don't think anyone was suggesting
> that we land in the Pine
> Barrens -- exactly the opposite. I like the
> Hackettstown launch
> location so far.
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> Are we going to run external batteries on
> the phone and / or camera? The phone is
> 3.7v. The battery went 12 hours
> yesterday without even
> using 50%, and was tracking for about half the
> day.
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> John A.
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:49 PM,
> Burns, William <burns at cshl.edu>
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> wrote:
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> I think
> I'd feel better about going into someone's
> back-yard (or knocking on the
> front door) to retrieve something w/ my name
> on it than I would
> about marching through a (snow covered?) forest and
> then climbing to the top
> of a tree.
>
> -Bill
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> From: list-bounces at islandlabs.org [mailto:list-bounces at islandlabs.org] On Behalf Of Bob
> Bennett
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: [islandlabs] Balloon Trajectory
> Planning
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:21
> PM, Burns, William
> <burns at cshl.edu> wrote:
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> We
> should pick a good/safe target/landing site
> that has good cell
> coverage, and adjust our launch
> location on the day of
> the event.
> I'd think suburbia
> would be iideal landing
> terrain.
> Landing in a forest
> probably means having to climb
> trees.
> Landing in suburbia may mean trespassing on
> someone's property if
> they're not home, or having to climb trees
> anyway.
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> -Bill
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> From: list-bounces at islandlabs.org [mailto:list-bounces at islandlabs.org] On Behalf Of
> John Teddy
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 1:12 PM
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> To: Island Labs main mailing list
> Subject:
> Re: [islandlabs] Balloon Trajectory
> Planning
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> Also this trajectory forecast looks
> like a significant risk
> for the Hudson river no?
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> If we launched in Morristown there
> is less significant water risK?
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at
> 1:01 PM, John Teddy
> <masterjediyoda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What
> is the site for getting projected launch and
> crash flight data? Can
> someone do Morristown, NJ and throw the graphic
> onto this thread.
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at
> 12:58 PM, John Teddy
> <masterjediyoda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If
> this is our projected flight path, why are we
> doing so far
> upstate.
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> We should launch closer, somewhere in Jersey I
> believe. Around ~Morristown, NJ perhaps.
>
> This will shave a
> few hours (RT) total off the trip I
> speculate. This would mean
> less wasted time, and potentially more time
> to search and rescue
> if we need it.
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:27 AM, john
> abella <john at abella.net>
> wrote:
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> Obviously this will be something to
> discuss tonight, but if
> anyone's been playing with the
> calculations and Google Earth,
> you'll notice some very odd flight
> paths for Sunday - assuming
> we're understanding the prediction
> forecast period:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/ba0WV.jpg
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> This was
> for 9am Sunday, and has it going only 14
> miles 'downrange' --
> SSE, and likely into the Hudson.
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>
> John
> A.
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