hab — Jason Madigan

High Altitude Adventures - Part 3

Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:00:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, I was mostly ready to launch. We’d bought an N30 cylinder of Helium from Irish Party Supplies, containing 7.82m³ of Helium - enough for roughly two launches of a standard sized 1000g balloon. Previously, I’d thought hydrogen would be a better choice, but considering it was a first launch we decided to play it safe (after having a gas seller painstakingly explain the various ways in which Hydrogen tanks can explode).

High Altitude Adventures - Part 2

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:20:00 +0000

Following on from my previous post, I’m going to go into a little more detail as to what we’re planning and what I’ve built so far - hopefully it will be of interest!

The payload (or safeload as I’m now calling it) is now complete. It consists of:

High Altitude Adventures

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:00:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, I spied a video on YouTube via Reddit - some guys had gotten together and put some cameras high up into the atmosphere (100,000ft, ~30km). I looked at it and thought it seemed like a good use of time. I got talking to a friend of mine at work about the possibilites of launching something like this from Ireland. As it turned out, some people from launched successfully from Kerry a few years back.