Balloon Launch
Brian Belley
Four Key Lessons from a Recent Balloon Launch

High altitude balloon launches are unpredictable and constant teachers. On a recent launch in December 2019, we were reminded of a few key lessons. Learn from our mistakes!

Four Key Lessons from a Recent Balloon Launch
Balloon Launch
Brian Belley
Colbert Launch, Part 3: Test Launch

In this post, join us as we launch a test payload with our planned equipment (GoPro Camera, Colbert Platform, Astronaut Ice Cream) to ensure everything will be ready for the actual Colbert launch. Come Launch with Us!

Colbert Launch, Part 3: Test Launch
Balloon Launch
Brian Belley
Our Balloon Launch with Stephen Colbert

This is the story of our launch to assist The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to send Astronaut Ice Cream to near-space for the first time!

Our Balloon Launch with Stephen Colbert
Space Camp, Science
Brian Belley
Near-Space Balloon Burst Altitude Calculator - ...

Perhaps you recognize this post's cover photo from a recent Late Show with Stephen Colbert skit: Astronaut Ice Cream is a Lie. Indeed, that skit used Launch with Us planning and flight hardware to plan for, execute, and retrieve the space ice cream payload. To make sure that we reached our objective altitude, we had to ensure that we chose the proper launch configuration. How did we do it? More about predicting altitude is below, while more details on the story of the Colbert launch itself will be coming in the next blog posts!

Near-Space Balloon Burst Altitude Calculator - Science
Balloon Launch
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EFT5 - Pi(e) in the Sky

Our return to flight after the winter!  This mission conducted a number of experiments that we will be briefing in the weeks to come.  This was our first launch with an object being video taped during flight - we launched an apple pie into near-space!

EFT5 - Pi(e) in the Sky

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Free Step-by-Step Instruction Guide for HAB Launches

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It is with great pleasure that we are able to offer our first contribution to the High Altitude Balloon (HAB) Community: our HAB Launch Step-by-Step User guide! Subscribe to our mailing list here to Download your FREE High Altitude Balloon (HAB) user guide

The download is completely Free, and we are open to any and all feedback to make this a more useful resource for fellow HAB enthusiasts. All that we ask to download the free user guide is that you sign up for our mailing list.

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This user guide takes all of our knowledge and lessons from over four launches in the past year and compiles the information in a clear, easy to read format that we are hoping will help many others reach near-space as we have!

In the future, we intend to use the mailing list to contact HAB enthusiasts  to get feedback on our user guide and other services, as well as to provide updates on our launches, free services and helpful information, and future products.

We hope that someday our tools and material will allow weather balloon launches to be accessible to anybody, regardless of background. Our approach is to allow people to use a low cost tracker with minimal time invested, and not require that anyone has a HAM radio license or in-depth technical background.

What am I signing up for by joining this mailing list?

This HAB mailing list is planned to be used for the following purposes:

1) Get in touch with the users of the Instruction Manual to be able to solicit feedback and improve it for future HAB enthusiasts

2) To share news about new releases of the User Guide, our planned open-source tracking software, and other free references for anyone looking to learn more about HAB launches

3) To send information, to those interested, about some of our hardware offerings that were developed (Quick Launch System) that we found simplified the launch process

For mailing frequency, we have not yet determined what the community would find most useful, but we do not foresee anything more often than once a week, and it is likely much less than that (our blog and Twitter are planned to be used for more frequent updates).

Request: If there is anything else that people would like to hear about via our mailing list, we would love the feedback so that this list will add value and we can make near-space more accessible to everyone!

Our promise: Your information will not be shared with any other parties and you will only receive HAB-related updates on a periodic basis from us.