Download by parachute: retrieval of assets from high altitude balloons
(2020)
Journal Article
Sirks, E., Clark, P., Massey, R., Benton, S., Brown, A., Damaren, C., …Tam, S. (2020). Download by parachute: retrieval of assets from high altitude balloons. Journal of Instrumentation, 15(05), Article P05014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/05/p05014
We present a publicly-available toolkit of flight-proven hardware and software to retrieve 5 TB of data or small physical samples from a stratospheric balloon platform. Before launch, a capsule is attached to the balloon, and rises with it. Upon remo... Read More about Download by parachute: retrieval of assets from high altitude balloons.