Spacebridge

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the hackerspace Noisebridge, our ongoing mission to explore strange (yet economically priced) new ascent technologies; to seek out new parts and new partnerships; to boldly go where no non-government-or-massively-industrially-funded-group has gone before.

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Flight Log

{ | border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" ! Flight !! Project !! Launch Date !! Status !! Notes !! Data |- ! SpacebridgeAlpha || Spacedroid || 2010.02.07 || Success || Inaugural SpaceBridge Launch || Pictures, kml and sensor data Pictures from onboard camera Photos of launch/team |- ! SpaceBridgeBeta || Spacedroid || 2010.03.27 || Failed || Failed due to lack of helium || Photos of launch/team |- ! SpaceBridgeGamma || Spacedroid || 2010.05.01 || Failed || meeting notes || high wind is bad for launching balloons in | |- ! SpaceBridgeDelta || Spacedroid || TBD || In Progress || meeting notes || BuildItems| }

Projects

Spacedroid (Spacebridge Alpha & Spacebridge Beta)
Spaceduino
Hackerspaces In Space weather balloon payload challenge

Notes

Post-beta meeting (Mar. 30, 2010)
Pre-flight CheckList
APRS - amateur radio position reporting plans, ideas and execution
SpaceBridgeFleet - Establishing a flight protocol to enable a more modular and streamlined launch
Spacebridge inaugural meeting (Dec. 20, 2009)
Onboard Equipment List

Related Links

Spacehack.org -- http://spacehack.org - a directory of ways to participate in space exploration (created by Ariel Waldman)
HAIP Automatons -- http://spaceballoonproject.blogspot.com -- Group that merged their project with Spacebridge.
Space Tourism Society -- http://www.spacetourismsociety.org -- Designing the Orbital Lifestyle
Space Frontier Foundation -- http://spacefrontier.org/ -- Advancing NewSpace
JP Aerospace -- http://jpaerospace.com/ -- Leaders in Balloon Launch Services
Virgin Galactic -- http://www.virgingalactic.com/ -- Sub-orbital joyrides for a mere $200,000
ZeroG Corporation -- http://www.gozerog.com/ -- Awesome Zero gravity airplane rides
Space Adventures -- http://www.spaceadventures.com/ -- The real thing: private rides to the International Space Station!
Bigelow Aerospace -- http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/ -- A real space hotel company. They have TWO prototypes in orbit!
Tripoli Rocketry Association -- http://www.tripoli.org/ -- Long time amateur rocket club
LUNAR -- http://www.lunar.org/ -- Bay Area Rocketry club
AMSAT -- http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/history.php -- A Brief History of Amateur Satellites
CubeSat -- http://cubesat.org/index.php/workshops/past-workshops -- Past workshops include presentations in PDF
N-Prize -- http://www.n-prize.com/ -- Like the X-Prize but much smaller and less well known.
http://spacepunk.org