Pegasus High Altitude Balloon Project

Links

Balloons/Parachutes

• CU Space Flight - A project I'm working with at Cambridge with some amazing plans - definitly one to watch!
• Project Soar - this group hope to be the first HAM radio enthusiasts to launch a balloon with radio in the UK - negotiating with OFCOM to change radio licence to allow for radio to be used Seem to be struggling, if you can provide help I'm sure it would be appreciated.
• Balloon v1.0 - one of the best examples of high altitude ballooning
• UTARC Experimental Balloon Missions - what started it off for me, read about these guys on Slashdot - amazing...
• Carl Nelson Memorial Balloon Project - UK based, really nice idea though seems to have run out of steam
• A.N.S.W.E.R 1 - new UK based project with some interesting approaches to communication.
• Tiger^'s Cygnus High Altitude Balloon Project

Balloons/Gliders

• The High Altitude Slug Project - UK based High Altitude Glider Project
• High Altitude Glider Project - the ultimate high altitude balloon project -> no need to retrieve the payload, it comes back!
• GPS Boomerang - commercial glider project based in New Zealand
• Kybernetos' plans for a UAV balloon - recently updated and now has paragraphs!

Balloons - General

• UK High Altitude Society
• Kaymont - Balloon manufacturers (never seen to answer to my emails :-( )
• kd7lmo.net - Excellent source of engineering plans - check out the pico beacon - if only radio was allowed in the UK!
• High Altitude Balloon Launch Information Center (doesn't seem to be up to date)
• Old list of ballooning groups.
• Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning Flight Records

General

• UKHAS (UK High Altitude Society)
• UKHAS Wiki
• Altitude Chart - to give some perspective on the height that Pegasus I got to and the altitude I hope that Pegasus II will get too :-).
• BBC Altitude Chart - really good chart, with temperatures, height, pressures and names of zones.
• Hackaday - mod a digital camera to automatically take pictures (i originally attempted this but it showed how useless I am at electronics)
• Gumstix commercial site
• Gumstix Community site
• Hackaday - amazing site for hacking literally everything!