{"id":243,"date":"2014-06-01T02:51:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=243"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T03:26:33","slug":"ps-8-mel-sa-nsw-pico-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"PS-8 &#8211; MEL-SA-NSW PICO flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PS-8 is planned to be release Sunday 1st June 2014 from Melbourne, at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>Party foil balloon. Solar powered payload 10mW, 11g weight.<\/p>\n<p>APRS 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-11<\/p>\n<p>THOR16 and RTTY100_8_1_N_600Hz: 434.500Mhz with RSID, every 6 minutes, call sign is PS on spacenear.us flight PS-8<\/p>\n<p>Balloon is expected to travel west to SA first before heading north to NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Aim: Comparison of THOR16 and RTTY working with TCXO<\/p>\n<p>Prediction:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-8\/NewImage1.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" title=\"NewImage.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"483\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Update #14:36pm<\/p>\n<p>The balloon was brought down by rain shortly after release :(.<\/p>\n<p>Landed in Flemington Racecourse, the payload and balloon were recovered successfully.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-8\/PastedGraphic-2.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 2\" title=\"PastedGraphic-2.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" \/>Relaunch is planned for coming Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Update #2 9:34pm<\/p>\n<p>The payload was re-launched at 8pm with a new balloon. Looks like it was still wet up there, the balloon got to 2152m before losing altitude and landed in the bay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-8\/PastedGraphic-1.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 1\" title=\"PastedGraphic-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS-8 is planned to be release Sunday 1st June 2014 from Melbourne, at 2pm. Details: Party foil balloon. Solar powered payload 10mW, 11g weight. APRS 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-11 THOR16 and RTTY100_8_1_N_600Hz: 434.500Mhz with RSID, every 6 minutes, call sign is PS on spacenear.us flight PS-8 Balloon is expected to travel west to SA first before [&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":[14],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-pico-aprs-rtty-thor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}