{"id":106,"date":"2014-03-17T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=106"},"modified":"2014-04-17T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T02:08:56","slug":"ps-3-melbourne-sydney-nz-pico-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"PS-3 &#8211; Melbourne &#8211; Sydney &#8211; NZ PICO flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PS-3 is a long range PICO balloon flight from Melbourne to Sydney, release at 5:30pm AEST 16 March 2014<\/p>\n<p>Payload is an ultra-light APRS beacon transmitting 10mW on 145.175Mhz. Total weight including battery and antenna is 13g.<\/p>\n<p>Callsign is VK3YT-11<\/p>\n<p>Prediction<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-3\/NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" title=\"NewImage.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"483\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>APRS tracking at<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/aprs.fi\/#!call=a%2FVK3YT-11&#038;timerange=86400&#038;tail=86400<\/p>\n<p>Tracking with prediction at<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/spacenear.us\/tracker\/?filter=VK3YT-11<\/p>\n<p>Expected to reach Sydney over night, then it will be out to sea.<br \/>\nIf the balloon survives the next day it might be within range of New Zealand APRS stations around 12:00 UTC 17\/3<\/p>\n<p>TX frequency will switch to NZ APRS frequency 144.575Mhz once 160.0 longitude is crossed.<\/p>\n<p>1:17am AEST 17 March<br \/>\nThe little balloon made it to Sydney!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-3\/PastedGraphic-8.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 8\" title=\"PastedGraphic-8.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"547\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last received APRS packet from Australia coast<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-3\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"Photo\" title=\"photo.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2:53:35 AEST 18 March<br \/>\nThe little balloon made it to New Zealand!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-3\/PastedGraphic-11.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 11\" title=\"PastedGraphic-11.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"578\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>13:41:54 AEST 18 March<br \/>\nLast packet from the balloon before it went out of APRS range<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-3\/PastedGraphic-13.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 13\" title=\"PastedGraphic-13.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Path of the whole trip:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-3\/PastedGraphic-14.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 14\" title=\"PastedGraphic-14.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Total distance travelled ~3561km<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-3\/PastedGraphic-20.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 20\" title=\"PastedGraphic-20.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Goodbye PS-3, it has been an amazing journey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS-3 is a long range PICO balloon flight from Melbourne to Sydney, release at 5:30pm AEST 16 March 2014 Payload is an ultra-light APRS beacon transmitting 10mW on 145.175Mhz. Total weight including battery and antenna is 13g. Callsign is VK3YT-11 Prediction APRS tracking at http:\/\/aprs.fi\/#!call=a%2FVK3YT-11&#038;timerange=86400&#038;tail=86400 Tracking with prediction at http:\/\/spacenear.us\/tracker\/?filter=VK3YT-11 Expected to reach Sydney over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-nz-flight-pico-aprs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}