Mike Coslo wrote:
wrote:

Tsk. Coslonautics, ink, is still challenged to reach the "threshold
of space" as announced last year...going where other ham radio
balloons have gone before. It is now nearly mid-summer and no
flight, no tests, no words.


Glad you asked! "Things" are moving along well enough, much of the
equipment has been chosen, yet needs to be integrated. Flight 1 will be
tethered to shake down the payload, flight two will be a short,
relatively low altitude flight. At flight 3, the payload form factor
will be changed. Beyond that, the flights will build on the success or
problems encountered during previous flights.

That's all the words you get.

There will be web pages devoted to the project. At that time you can
read and ridicule, but you'll have to go to the website to get yer
material.

Why dontcha ask Len how that "Extra right out of the box" is coming
along. How many years down the road has that been now?

Dave K8MN

Dave Heil wrote:

Why dontcha ask Len how that "Extra right out of the box"
is coming
along. How many years down the road has that been now?

More than five and a half years ago - January 19, 2000, to be exact.
But hey, Len didn't say *when* he was going to do it....

Neither did Mike, IIRC....

73 de Jim, N2EY

Dave Heil wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:

wrote:

Tsk. Coslonautics, ink, is still challenged to reach the "threshold
of space" as announced last year...going where other ham radio
balloons have gone before. It is now nearly mid-summer and no
flight, no tests, no words.



Glad you asked! "Things" are moving along well enough, much of the
equipment has been chosen, yet needs to be integrated. Flight 1 will
be tethered to shake down the payload, flight two will be a short,
relatively low altitude flight. At flight 3, the payload form factor
will be changed. Beyond that, the flights will build on the success or
problems encountered during previous flights.

That's all the words you get.

There will be web pages devoted to the project. At that time you
can read and ridicule, but you'll have to go to the website to get yer
material.


Why dontcha ask Len how that "Extra right out of the box" is coming
along. How many years down the road has that been now?

No point to it.

Not sure why he is so anxious for us to launch something. I don't
recall setting any particular deadline.

No biggie.

- Mike KB3EIA -

Mike Coslo wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

Mike Coslo wrote:

wrote:

Tsk. Coslonautics, ink, is still challenged to reach the "threshold
of space" as announced last year...going where other ham radio
balloons have gone before. It is now nearly mid-summer and no
flight, no tests, no words.




Glad you asked! "Things" are moving along well enough, much of
the equipment has been chosen, yet needs to be integrated. Flight 1
will be tethered to shake down the payload, flight two will be a
short, relatively low altitude flight. At flight 3, the payload form
factor will be changed. Beyond that, the flights will build on the
success or problems encountered during previous flights.

That's all the words you get.

There will be web pages devoted to the project. At that time you
can read and ridicule, but you'll have to go to the website to get
yer material.



Why dontcha ask Len how that "Extra right out of the box" is coming
along. How many years down the road has that been now?


No point to it.

Not sure why he is so anxious for us to launch something. I don't
recall setting any particular deadline.

No biggie.

Surely you know that Len is the very opposite of being anxious for you
to launch. If you had a sucessful launch, it'd take away his ammunition.

Dave K8MN

Dave Heil wrote:

Mike Coslo wrote:

No point to it.

Not sure why he is so anxious for us to launch something. I don't
recall setting any particular deadline.

No biggie.


Surely you know that Len is the very opposite of being anxious for you
to launch. If you had a sucessful launch, it'd take away his ammunition.


I doubt that, Dave. 8^)

- Mike KB3EIA -