Hi we deleted your entry in the events page because no-one knew whether you were meeting. We still love you. Just put it back if you want to.

Love, --Malaclyps (talk) 04:57, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

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.



- To keep up to date with Spacebridge, subscribe to the Spacebridge mailing list: https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/space

- If you are planning to contribute to or attend Spacebridge meetups, add your name to the Spacebridge interest list

Weekly Meetings are now on Tuesday at 7:30

Project Summary [ edit ]

Spacebridge is a project that documents the necessary steps to produce a cheap and easy deployment platform for lofting instrumentation and photographic equipment into the stratosphere. We approach this project with a heavy slant towards education, with a hope to bring science education away from something that you know because of a dusty old book, to a hands on experience.

The Spacebridge project is run out of the Noisebridge hacker community, a non-profit educational corporation for public benefit provides an infrastructure for technical-creative projects.



The Spacebridge project can be broken up into 3 parts. The payload delivery system, payload bus, and the payload itself.

The delivery system is currently a meteorological weather balloon that lofts our system about 100k feet into the air (commercial airlines fly at around 32k feet). The system also includes flight lights for increased visibility, a radar reflector dish for visibility by radar tracking systems, and a four foot parachute to help slow the decent.

The payload bus is an environmentally protecting enclosure that keeps all the payload items secure and in a known orientation and attached to necessary ports. It also protects the electronic equipment from the cold (it's around -30 degrees up there).

Lastly, we have the payload itself. We currently loft 2 cameras that have been hacked so that custom software can be run on them. We also send up an android cell phone which records accelerometer, magnetometer and GPS data, and text messages me the GPS data for our recovery. We also send up a secondary tracking system that consists of a commercial GPS tracking system, an opentracker (a custom made system to convert the GPS signals into APRS data packets) and a ham radio to transmit those data packets.

Video Log of SPACEBGE [ edit ]

Did you stumble across our video feed? Please tell us where and when you saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go56JzqoFK0 - SpaceBridge Balloon001 Launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHphc0VSJp0 - Balloon001 launch stabilized/deshaken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haF8aUw0pz4 - NoiseBridge/SpaceBridge high altitude balloon 2010 Yuri's Night at NASA Ames

Flight Log [ edit ]

Project Info [ edit ]

Notes [ edit ]





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

Copenhagen Suborbitals -- http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/index.php -- Danish non-profit suborbital space endeavor.



Related Photos [ edit ]

Space Ship Two Rollout : http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157622841126139/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157622841154081/



NASA Lunar Regolith Challenge : http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157622498986221/



White Knight 2 Rollout : http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157606433514833/



2008 Yuri's Night Bay Area : http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157604598610880/



2007 X PRIZE Cup : http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157603332923084/

