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High Altitude Balloon Tutorial
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Various links to more information and where to buy components . . .

Places to Buy Balloons:
Scientific Sales
Kaymont Balloons

Places to Buy Transmitters/Beacons/Trackers
GPS / APRS transmitters
SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger
GlobalStar satellite data modems
Universal Radio
TinyTrak
Kantronics
XTend 900 1W, 40 Mile Range modem
P. C. Electronics

Places to buy parachutes
RocketMan

Sonic Beacons
Adept Rocketry
Mallory Sonalert

Attaching Rockets to Balloons
Rockoons Launching a rocket at high altitude from a balloon.
PongSat Student experiments flown to the edge of space by balloons and launched in rockets

Other Balloon Tutorials
Parallax Balloon Tutorial (a bit outdated)
Nuts & Volts Balloon Tutorial (a bit outdated)
UIUC meteorology tutorials
American Meteorological Society meteorology tutorials

Methods to Control Helium Pressure Actively
active helium release valve mechanism
Barometrically Activated Quick Release

Simulation Software
On-Line Near Space Flight Track Prediction Utility
BalloonTrack
EOSS Grid Calculator Version 3
Balloon Trajectory Forcaster
Balloon Burst Calculator
CUSF Balloon Burst Calculator
ascent rate calculator
CUSF Landing Predictor
Forecast: view globabl weather patterns

Weather Data/Forecasts
animated map from Wunderground
updated aurora forcast
SpaceWeather.com
ANIMATION of Jet Stream Forecasts
jetstream animation of the northern hemisphere
sounding data

Balloon Groups
White Star Balloons - known for repeated attempts to be "The first amateur small balloon to cross the Atlantic," but was eventually beat out by another group.
October Skies used a long beam to stabelize camera motion
The Vienna Wireless Society
California Near Space Project - set record by flying balloon from California to Algeria.
Treasure Valley Near Space Program (TVNSP) in Idaho
a large list of more balloon groups

Misc Links
Arhab; ranks world balloon records (highest, heaviest, etc)
EOSS Edge of Space Sciences
UI-View an APRS client that runs on Windows
TAPR APRS software
GPS Visualizer
HAB Tracker (for Android)
Google Earth
Aviation Formulary aviation related formulas and equations
HAB Tracker: Arduino tracking
Android apps for HAB tracking

If you're interested in learning more about HacDC's launches, feel free to read on:
SpaceBlimp 1
SpaceBlimp 2
SpaceBlimp 3
SpaceBlimp 4
SpaceBlimp 5

another writeup for SpaceBlimp3

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