by Michael Bales | Oct 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hey everyone, the time has come to announce our Kickstarter campaign launch date. The Tracksoar will be available on Kickstarter starting Friday 10/9/15 at Noon (PDT). The campaign will run for 30 days and we hope to raise $22,000 to fund the first production run of...
by Michael Bales | Sep 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hey everyone, the Tracksoar got a tiny blurb in MAKE Magazine Vol. 47 on page 38. The brief mention is in the Near-Space Photography with APRS section. The fine folks at MAKE will be posting a more in depth review in an upcoming issue, so keep an eye out for...
by Michael Bales | Sep 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hey everyone, earlier today we had our first bug free flight. We launched from just North of Gaviota, CA and tracked it up to a burst altitude of 108,000 feet before landing North of Buellton, CA. The flight went extremely smoothly, with the Tracksoar never missing a...
by Michael Bales | Aug 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
After our last launch we started on a campaign of further ground testing to see if we could replicate the loss of GPS location updates. We ran a half dozen cold soak tests using dry ice to drop the Tracksoar down to between -40 and -60 celsius, the usual range of...
by Michael Bales | Aug 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
I took a Saturday off from launching test balloons to sit down and really go over the Tracksoar. After a couple of hours of testing I was able to reproduce our big issue from the last flight; losing GPS updates at 66k feet. I spoke with the friendly folks at the...
by Michael Bales | Aug 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
After nearly a year in development we finally managed our first Tracksoar test flight. It has been a long process to get to this point but we finally have a version worthy of proper flight testing. We put the Tracksoar through it’s paces in a number of ground...
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