Bummer, GeoCam is out !

The mud did not do it. It looks like the mechanical finger did not work as intended and we have only one photo of the flight: the tarmac.



The file listing on the SD card clearly shows that on July 27th, at integration, the mechanism for shotting the camera was working but that the day before the launch and the launch day, whenever GeoCam would be activated it would take only one picture. Bummer.




We are looking at Hyper-GeoCam now. The 16 GB card is so large that when looking at the file directory through the USB 1.1 connector we cannot see the .RAW images until the camera downloads all of them which takes a certain amount of time. Initially we were thinking that camera had not taken any shots.

HASP 2006 on video and HASP 2007 on schedule

Found two videos of the HASP 2006, taken from the CosmoCam a webcam embarked on our HASP flight, enjoy:






The news from HASP 2007:

CURRENT HASP STATUS 13:10 UTC August 27, 2007: Mike Stewart and Greg Guzik have arrived at the flightline in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico. Today will be devoted to locateing all the HASP equipment, unpacking, setting up our control system, and assembling / checking the HASP ballooncraft. So far the weather here has been clear and pleasant, but it is too early to make any reliable predictions about launch
opportunities.