Space Balloon 360

WE'RE BACK! Blasting off on Dec 6 🚀 Join our flight crew for another LIVE 360 broadcast from near space!

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Space Balloon 360 https://t.co/yzcIeezQMG

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Mission accomplished! Payload was in the top of a tree up a steep 0.3mi hike. You can see the radio tower that was receiving position packets in the third photo 📡

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Headed retrieve the payload. Wish us luck.

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Who's up for a hike tomorrow morning? 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

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Our flight has landed, but the search for the payload has just begun...

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If you're in the Pleasanton area, please keep an eye out!

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Lent a hand launching @SpaceBalloon360 this morning.

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🎈 IT'S LAUNCH DAY 🎈

Our flight crew is heading to Fairfield now, stay tuned for updates!

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Shortage schmortage #heliumshortage #lol

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Prepping the payload!

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But for real if anyone knows where to track down some helium hit us up

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2:30am reading material https://t.co/Fu2Qli1gIu

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@pablothegreek Thanks yeah the glory of the live video is that if we never get the payload back it’s still mission accomplished 🎈

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Where should we launch from? 🤔

Our team is using https://t.co/vyH63RWnr6 to consider possible flight paths for Thursday.

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And here it is finished

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CNC milling a handle for our chase car antenna https://t.co/lET8EdOaBa

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Don’t mean to start a flame war.. but what distro should we use for our new Linux ground station VM?

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@apretz We live for danger 😈

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Launching in T-4 🚀

Join our flight crew for our next LIVE 360 broadcast from near space on Dec 6!

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Payload is recovered!

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We just got a call from Randy out in Pittsburg that he found our payload! Team is headed out there this morning to recover