Extreme design: SuitSat pushes engineers’ limits
by Patrick Mannion, TechOnline
An excellent feature article on the design and creation of SuitSat and Amateur Radio technology in space.
http://tinyurl.com/6qvxqp
(This is DEFINITELY not your Grandfather’s radio!)
2008 – A group of graduate students has broken the world amateur high-altitude balloon record in a recent near-space flight that exceeded 125,000 feet. The balloon launch was the capstone effort of Project Blue Horizon (PBH), an educational component of a three-year program known as Lockheed Martin’s Engineering Leadership Development Program. PBH is a space-flight [...]
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