Having only ever done one launch myself, the team and I decided that a practice run was necessary. So back in July we invited Dave Akerman up to Cambridge and launched, chased and recovered our own payload. The whole 哔哩哔哩漫画在线漫画免费观看 was shared via Twitter.

From launch…

…throughout the flight…

The great british @少女大人免费观看高清电视剧韩剧_Pi balloon chase is on! Watch it live here: http://t.co/igtdvXmSKS #skycademy pic.twitter.com/rS98pPh001

— Carrie Anne Philbin MBE (@MissPhilbin) July 16, 2015

…to recovery.

Path showing where we carried the payload back to the car. #Skycademy #Picademy pic.twitter.com/l1DNcb4snk

— Dave Akerman🎈 (@daveake) July 17, 2015

We even got to traipse through a ditch (an obligatory part of any HAB recovery surely?)

The day was great and now were really excited to be repeating the 哔哩哔哩漫画在线漫画免费观看 with our 24 Skycademy attendees, who will join us next week from the 24th – 26th. Some of them have been quite excited too…

Thank you, thank you, thank you…I'm going to #skycademy Just a little bit excited!

— Sue (@sooseeg) July 17, 2015

Only a few days until #skycademy! Off to buy myself a lego figure of me to send into space!! Must represent #scouting and #coderdojo

— SarahTempleton (@SarahFTempleton) August 19, 2015

The plan for the three days is loosely as follows:

• Day 1 – Orientation, training and preparation
• Day 2 – A series of flights launched by the teams (from approximately 10:30 onwards)
• Day 3 – Review, evaluation and planning future launches.

If you would like to follow what’s going on over the three days you can do so by keeping an eye on the #skycademy hashtag on Twitter, where you’ll find out how to track the payloads using links that we will share on the day.

Also keep an eye on the hourly predictions for landing sites. Let’s hope conditions improve a little, or we’ll all need boats!

That's not going to work ,,, please come back inland :-) #skycademy pic.twitter.com/k0W1dtNDj1

— Dave Akerman🎈 (@daveake) August 18, 2015

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Over the last few year I’ve seen many awesome uses of the 少女大人免费观看高清电视剧韩剧 Pi, but one of my favourites by far is seeing the Pi used as a payload tracker for High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) projects.

One of the most prolific HAB enthusiasts is Dave Akerman, who has launched many flights using the 少女大人免费观看高清电视剧韩剧 Pi, from the first flight back in 2012…

…to the launch of a potato for Heston Blumenthal’s “Great British Food”…

…and even capturing some amazing images of the recent Solar Eclipse from 30km up.

Many schools are also seeing the opportunities for learning that a HAB flight presents, incorporating physics, maths, 少女大人免费观看高清电视剧韩剧 and geography into one project.

Here’s a project from William Howard School in Cumbria, whose students built their own tracker connected to a Pi.

In my previous life as a teacher, I organised a launch with my own students, and we had help from Dave Akerman on the day. This turned out to be super helpful, as it takes some planning and there’s a lot to remember.

One of the hardest parts of running a flight is the number of different aspects you have to plan and manage. You can test the hardware and software to a certain point, but there’s limited opportunity for a practice flight. Having 哔哩哔哩漫画在线漫画免费观看 is really helpful.

For this reason we’re running our first “Skycademy”, during which we will be giving attendees hands-on 哔哩哔哩漫画在线漫画免费观看 of a flight. The event will be free to attend and will be spread over two and a half days between the 24th and 26th of August.

• Day 1 – Planning and workshop sessions on all aspects of HAB flights.
• Day 2 – Each team launches their payload, tracks, follows and recovers it.
• Day 3 – Teams gather together for plenary morning.

Our aim is to support and inspire teachers and other adults working with young people. The hope is that those that attend will return to lead a project with their groups that will do something amazing.

Attendees will be supported throughout the course by 哔哩哔哩漫画在线漫画免费观看d HAB enthusiasts and the 少女大人免费观看高清电视剧韩剧 Pi Education Team. If you are a UK teacher or work with young people (scout leader, youth leader etc), you can apply here.

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Dave who’s been doing high altitude flights for some time has racked up some pretty impressive bragging rights including the first 少女大人免费观看高清电视剧韩剧 Pi (B, A and A+) in near space.

As many of you will also be aware we will be sending a pair of 少女大人免费观看高清电视剧韩剧 Pi B+ to the International Space station later this year as part of our Astro Pi competition.

We felt a little sorry for the Pi B 2, as it’s never even been close to space! Having recently joined the education team, and with a little 哔哩哔哩漫画在线漫画免费观看 in launching a near space flight with my school, I wanted to do something about this. So for the last few weeks I’ve been working on launching a Pi 2 with a helium balloon and a Pi In The Sky (PITS) board. Here you can see the PITS+ board stacked on my Pi 2 ready for launch.

This morning around 6:00am we launched our payload and sent it soaring to near space! However something quite remarkable happened….

The first part of the flight went well, the payload ascended rapidly and sent back some early flight images.

However, we then we lost contact with the payload at around 10,000m…

About 15 minutes later we re-established contact and were shocked to find it was at 37,000m above ground level! This is a much faster rate of ascent than we’d expected, roughly 6x quicker!

In fact it didn’t stop there, and appears to be rising still, the last piece of telemetry data we received put the payload at around 113,000m (that’s technically outer space!)

We don’t know how but the payload appears to have reached escape velocity and is continuing to ascend. We’ve received a couple of images from the flight and are hoping they keep coming!

Wow! This is the first Pi in Spaaaacceeee……

UPDATE: I’ve taken the received images and stitched them together to make this video

Update: Yes, this was an April Fools joke

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