The Brambletye Space Program

With the help of a couple of Dads we aim to send a meteorological balloon into the outer atmosphere or to Near Space as it is sometimes called. The idea is to get photos all the way up to 33km high in the outer reaches of the atmosphere. In order to do this lots of complicated electronics need to be assembled and tested. Today we had the first chance to test out the tracking device in the Brambletye grounds.

It is also very cold at these tremendously high altitudes and so we have been using dry ice to help calibrate some of the electronic equipment. You can see the fun we have had with dry ice on the Science Blog.