Double Bummer, Hyper-GeoCam worked only for 20 minutes

For some reason this is the last image we obtained from Hyper-GeoCam. The balloon was only about 1 km up.

Landing in the Mud

From Greg Guzik:

September 4, 2007: HASP 2007 RECOVERY SUCCESSFUL: HASP was successfully
recovery from a freshly irregated farm field near Poston, AZ during the morning of September 3. In the words of one of the CSBF managers, "You had a very soft landing!" The recovery crew returned HASP to Ft. Sumner by late afternoon of September 4, where we had a first look at the landing damage. Almost all of the student payloads appeared to have suffered very little injury during landing and recovery. The recovery crew removed most of the small payloads from the fiberglass extension booms and dismounted the UAH, MSU and ULL large payload prior to dragging HASP out of the field. They even managed to fish out from the mud one of the TAMU cameras that had broken off during landing. The HASP electronics system appeared very clean with no obvious evidence of water damage or extensive mud intrusion into the interior. Once HASP is returned to LSU next week, we will be able to do a more through assessment.

Images of the Recovery can be found here
[http://laspace.lsu.edu/hasp/images/2006-2007/09-04-07]

College Station, HASP has landed.

From the HASP website:

CURRENT HASP STATUS 08:15 UTC September 3, 2007:

The HASP flight was terminated at 1:52 am today (7:52 UTC)
near Poston, AZ (near the California border).  The flight
had 14 hours and 22 minutes of float and lasted close to
19 hours.

From the GPS tracking site, that would be about 6.55 miles away from the California border. Congratulations to the HASP team.

what a beautiful view

From 120,000 feet.