Project Aims
Like the majority of interesting engineering projects, the original stimulus for this project was to see whether it could be done. Specifically in this case, that was to launch high altitude helium balloon at reasonable cost, with the primary aim of recovering the payload after the flight. As such, relatively expensive equipment could be used again for another flight. Specifications When the project first began, we had a number of things we wished it to achieve:
- The payload to be largely reusable.
- To take lots of high altitude pictures at a reasonable resolution.
- To be easy to operate, to aid a repeated launch by the younger years at the school.
- To record environmental variables such as temperature and pressure at altitude.
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Team
Leaders
- Jon Sowman
- Ben Oxley
- Matthew Brejza
Members
- Richard Morris
- Andrew Cowan
- Edmund Mottershead
- Michael Georgiou
- Sam Gardner
Staff
- J. Costello
- R. Turner
- P. Davis