The High altitude ballooning group launched 2 trackers on Friday 31 Jan 2020 from Fryent Country park. ICSPACE16 was last seen over Austria while ICSPACE17 landed on a hill in Slovakia and was transmitting until it ran out of battery. ICSPACE16 was our first pure solar tracker, with 6 solar Read more…
The long awaited launch of the our next generation balloon track has come. This new tracker integrates the Murata CMWX1ZZABZ-078 LoRa radio module, an Ublox GPS, TE connectivity MS5607 temperature/pressure sensor, AA lithium battery and boost coverter. We launched the balloon from Fryent Country Park, London in the afternoon of Read more…
The cube satellite group designed and built a 137 Mhz double crossed dipole antenna to receive data from orbiting NOAA statelites. This probably the first time the Imperial College Space Society has communicated with an orbiting satellite, albeit only one way. We built the antenna according to this excellent tutorial Read more…
The high powered rocket designed to go supersonic has been under development for some time now at the Imperial College Space Society. Recently, we have been designing and building the flight computer. We have settled on a single stage minimum diameter rocket(either 38mm or 54mm diameter rocket that will take Read more…
On 5th of August 2019 we launched our most successful flights so far, both in terms of distance and flight duration. ICSPACE13 travelled over 1200km to Poland, flying over the Netherlands, Germany. Flight time was 13h 2min. ICSPACE12 and 13 were launched around 5.30pm on the 5th of August from Read more…
The Imperial College Space Society High Altitude ballooning group launched 2 balloons yesterday, 15 April 2019. One of the two balloons launched yesterday was tracked for a duration of 12 hours and 52 minutes of flight time. This is our longest flight yet, beating our previous record by nearly 3 Read more…
High altitude ballooning group launched two balloons today, 5 April 2019 from our usual launch site, Wormwood Scrubs Spaceport in London. The balloons travelled across the country along almost the same path. This time we had the longest flight duration, surpassing 4.5 hours. The balloons did not enter a float Read more…
The High altitude ballooning group launched 2 small balloons,ICSPACE6 and 7 today, 9 March 2019 from Wormwood Scrubs, London with trackers on board. We successfully tracked them all the way to Belgium but they mysteriously disappeared over what I now call the “BelgiuMuda Triangle”. This was the highest flights we Read more…
On the 6 Feb 2019, the High altitude ballooning group launched 2 Pico balloons,ICSPACE4 and 5 from Wormwood Scrubs, London. ICSPACE5 travelled a total of 386.52 km and reached a max altitude of 6290m. However, ICSPACE4 travelled a grand total of 500m and the peak altitude of the top of Read more…
The High altitude ballooning group launched two pico balloons with ultra light trackers from Wormwood scrubs, London on the 26th of January 2019. The two trackers were launched with the call signs ICSPACE2 and ICSPACE3 about 1.5 hours apart. We tracked ICSPACE2 all the way to the Netherlands,just before the German Read more…