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FS#3 has been recovered! He is one dirty squirrel!

Posted on January 11, 2019

Our brave, and lucky squirrel is badly in need of a bath, but otherwise is in good shape and happily resting at home. FS3 launched at 10:29Am Dec 7th, 2018 and was performing very well as it flew over the tall San Bernardino Mountains to the west of our launch point. One hour and 24 […]

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FS3, High Altitude Balloon

FS#3 phoned home!

Posted on January 8, 2019

FS#3 phoned home! After being lost for exactly 1 month, our brave Flying Squirrel #3 has “phoned home”.  Flying Squirrels all have a label on the outside and on the inside with an email address to use to report its location when found. Yesterday, I received an email informing me that a gentleman found Flying […]

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Flying Squirrels, FS3, Ham Radio, High Altitude Balloon, Mission Goals, Telemetry

FS3 Post Flight Post Summary

Posted on December 13, 2018

Two of the primary goals of every Flying Squirrels mission is to: 1. Have Fun! 2. Learn stuff. We certainly had a lot of fun!  A bunch of middle-aged hacker Geeks are never too old to play with a big balloon and laugh about it!  And no matter the outcomes, we learn and use this […]

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Flying Squirrels, FS3, Ham Radio, High Altitude Balloon, Telemetry

FS3 Flight path in 3D (KML)

Posted on December 9, 2018

Get your 3D googles ready or just download the FS3 KML and load it into Google Earth.  The image above shows the FS3 flight path, from a mountain level point to the South looking North. LA, Riverside and “The OC” would be off to the left of this image. The flight was short (Actually the […]

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FS3 – Climb Squirrel Climb!

Posted on December 9, 2018

  The graph above shows the ascent of FS3 into the sky, until the telemetry signal was lost. Our daring squirrel was a good climber!  Each time stamp  (Day:Hour:Min) is 2 mins apart. (Except for few missing data points). FS3 reach a last known altitude of 9,100 meters. (29,855 ft). If the balloon did not […]

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Flying Squirrels, FS3, Ham Radio, High Altitude Balloon, Telemetry

FS3 Mission Summary – Gone with the Wind.

Posted on December 8, 2018

This is a summary of the FS3 flight. More detailed data/analysis will follow, but for those following along, I wanted to let you know how the flight progressed. Curious Squirrels need to know! As mentioned in the more recent Mission updates, Southern California received a good amount of rainfall in the two days before our […]

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