{"id":83,"date":"2014-02-17T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=83"},"modified":"2014-04-17T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T02:09:17","slug":"ps-2-interstate-pico-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"PS-2 &#8211; Interstate PICO flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PS-2 is a last-minute un-announced PICO flight.<\/p>\n<p>Launched from Melbourne at 6pm Sun 16 Feb 2014, the small party balloon carries an APRS tracker with a total weight of 16g. TX power is 100mW.<\/p>\n<p>No manual tracking is required.<\/p>\n<p>The aim: to visit NSW, and to stay within APRS reception range for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-2\/120018_trj001.gif\" alt=\"120018 trj001\" title=\"120018_trj001.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"483\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>aprs.fi tracking screen:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-17-at-10.30.48-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 02 17 at 10 30 48 AM\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-17 at 10.30.48 AM.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"551\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update1<\/strong>:<\/em><br \/>\nLooks like the balloon went out of APRS coverage at 9:52 AEST.<br \/>\nUpdated prediction shows it will be heading south at some stage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/137052_trj001.gif\" alt=\"137052 trj001\" title=\"137052_trj001.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"483\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Total tracked flight time is 15h50m, covering a distance of ~796km which was more than expected. It is ~200km short of the Queensland border, which could be for another PICO flight \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Some stats from aprs.fi<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-17-at-3.01.38-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 02 17 at 3 01 38 PM\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-17 at 3.01.38 PM.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS-2 is a last-minute un-announced PICO flight. Launched from Melbourne at 6pm Sun 16 Feb 2014, the small party balloon carries an APRS tracker with a total weight of 16g. TX power is 100mW. No manual tracking is required. The aim: to visit NSW, and to stay within APRS reception range for as long as [&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":[7],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-pico-flight-balloon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}