SUNSET 2 – Near Space Balloon
SUNSET2 was launched and recovered successfully a few weeks ago. This was my second attempt at a Propeller powered near-space balloon. You can read about the partially successful first attempt here. The motivation for SUNSET2 came from a friendly guy named Mark Shepstone, who approached me through the university. He had read about my previous...
SUNSET 1 – Near Space Balloon
For my final year electronic engineering project I designed and launched a near-space balloon powered by the Parallax Propeller. My 50 page report, a slideshow and firmware can be downloaded here, but I will also give a short description below: The project was called SUNSET (Stellenbosch University Near-Space Engineering Testbed). It had the following capabilities:...
